Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Voltaire

ISBN 10: 0143039423 / ISBN 13: 9780143039426

Edité par Penguin Classics, 2005

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. N° de réf. du vendeur G0143039423I4N00

Synopsis :

Note de l'éditeur : il s'agit d'une édition spéciale reliée qui peut présenter des pages irrégulières/mal massicotées. Il s'agit d'un choix de l'éditeur et de l'auteur. 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 naïve 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.”

• A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with French flaps and rough front
• Completely new translation and introduction
• Amazing cover art from one of the most beloved modern comic artists

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À propos de l'auteur:

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 Micromégas 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.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics ...
Éditeur : Penguin Classics
Date d'édition : 2005
Reliure : Paperback
Illustrateur : Ware, Chris
Etat : Very Good
Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket