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Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics) By Voltaire
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- Condition
- Type
- Novel
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Original Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780140440041
- Book Title
- Candide : or Optimism
- Item Length
- 7.8in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 1950
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.3in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Classics, Satire, Literary
- Item Width
- 5.1in
- Item Weight
- 4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 144 Pages
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"All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds" It was the indifferent shrug and callous inertia that this "optimism" concealed which so angered Voltaire, who found the "all for the best" approach a patently inadequate response to suffering, to natural disasters, not to mention the questions of illness and man-made war. Moreover, as the rebel whose satiric genius had earned him not only international acclaim, but two stays in the Bastille, flogging, and exile, Voltaire knew personally what suffering entailed. In Candide he whisks his young hero and friends through a ludicrous variety of tortures, tragedies, and a reversal of fortune, in the company of Pangloss, a "metaphysico-theologo-comolo-nigologist" of unflinching optimism. The result is one of the glories of eighteenth-century satire. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0140440046
ISBN-13
9780140440041
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109052569
Product Key Features
Book Title
Candide : or Optimism
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Classics, Satire, Literary
Publication Year
1950
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
144 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.8in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
4 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Twelfth Grade
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Copyright Date
2000
Lccn
00-000700
Dewey Decimal
843.5
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
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