Candide - Couverture souple

Voltaire

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1324059591 ISBN 13 : 9781324059592

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 2026

Synopsis

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

• Robert M. Adams’s acclaimed translation, which renders Voltaire’s French into lively, idiomatic English while preserving the novella’s provocative humour, accompanied by explanatory annotations for contemporary readers.
• An introduction by Nicholas Cronk exploring Candide’s major themes and its relationship to Enlightenment thought.
• A rich Backgrounds section featuring newly added excerpts from influential essays by Alexander Pope and John Locke, alongside a new essay by Gillian Pink on the composition of Candide.
• Critical essays examining Candide’s style, genre, satire, and place within the commercial and colonial world of the eighteenth century.
• An updated selected bibliography and, for the first time, a chronology of Voltaire’s life and times.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nicholas Cronk is Director of the Voltaire Foundation, Professor of French Literature, and Lecturer in the History of the Book at Oxford University. He is General Editor of the Complete Works of Voltaire as well as editor or co-editor of many publications. His current research project is Voltaire's Radical Enlightenment: Editing and Re-Interpreting the Lettres sur les Anglais, for which he has been awarded an Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship (2015―17).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: WW Norton & Co
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1324059591
• ISBN 13: 9781324059592
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 4
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Éditeur: Cronk Nicholas
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible