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Candide,: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions) Book

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.”Read More

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  • Blackwell

    With Candide, Voltaire bumptiously skewered the fashionable misinterpretation of the doctrine of philosophical optimism, unerringly offending kings, scientists, fanaticals, publishers, journalists, and even priests; composed in a mere three days...

  • BookDepository

    Candide, : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780143039426 : 0143039423 : 01 Feb 2007 : Tells of the adventures of the naive Candide, who doggedly believes that all is for the best even when faced with injustice, suffering, and despair.

  • Waterstones

    Tells of the adventures of the naive Candide, who doggedly believes that all is for the best even when faced with injustice, suffering, and despair.

  • Pickabook

    Voltaire, Theo Cuffe (Trans), Michael Wood

  • 0143039423
  • 9780143039426
  • Francois Voltaire
  • 1 February 2007
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 200
  • Deluxe
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