Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Voltaire

Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143039426)

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Format: Paperback
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Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Voltaire

Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

$17.00
Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Voltaire

Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

$17.00
Format: Paperback
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With its vibrant new translation, perceptive introduction, and witty packaging, this new edition of Voltaire's masterpiece belongs in the hands of every reader pondering our assumptions about human behavior and our place in the world. Candide tells of the hilarious adventures of the na ve Candide, who doggedly believes that "all is for the best" even when faced with injustice, suffering, and despair. Controversial and entertaining, Candide is a book that is vitally relevant today in our world pervaded by--as Candide would say--"the mania for insisting that all is well when all is by no means well."

Author: Voltaire
ISBN-10: 0143039423
ISBN-13: 9780143039426
Publisher: Penguin Group
Language: English
Published: 10/25/2005
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 0.50d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.3
Point Value: 5
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 28450 / Candide


Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 11/01/2005 pg. 92
Library Journal 11/15/2005 pg. 107
By Voltaire
By Voltaire
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Voltaire, was born in 1694. For twenty years Voltaire lived chiefly away from Paris. In this, his most prolific period, he wrote such satirical tales as "Zadig" (1747) and "Candide" (1759). He died in 1778. Theo Cuffe translated Voltaire's Microm馮as and Other Short Fictions for Penguin Classics. Michael Wood is the writer and presenter of many critically acclaimed series on television, including In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great and its accompanying book.

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