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Candide, or Optimism

Candide, or Optimism

by Voltaire (Author), Michael Wood (Afterword), TheoCuffe (Translator)

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    Hardcover 2005

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Synopsis

Brought up in the household of a powerful Baron, Candide is an open-minded young man, whose tutor, Pangloss, has instilled in him the belief that 'all is for the best'. But when his love for the Baron's rosy-cheeked daughter is discovered, Candide is cast out to make his own way in the world. And so he and his various companions begin a breathless tour of Europe, South America and Asia, as an outrageous series of disasters befall them - earthquakes, syphilis, a brush with the Inquisition, murder - sorely testing the young hero's optimism.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 154
 Edition: 1st Penguin Classics
 Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 04 Aug 2005
ISBN 10: 0713998814
ISBN 13: 9780713998818

Author Bio
Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) was the universal genius of the Enlightenment: novelist, historian, poet, dramatist, moralist, and critic. In his early career he was briefly committed to the Bastille for his satires and later exiled to England. Candide (1759) is his masterpiece. Michael Wood (introducer) is currently Straut Professor of English at Princeton. His books include Stendhal, America in the Movies, The Magician's Doubts, Franz Kafka, and The Road to Delphi. Theo Cuffe (translator) has also translated a selection of Voltaire's short stories for Penguin, Micromegas and Other Short Fictions.