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Candide, or Optimism (Penguin Classics)

Candide, or Optimism (Penguin Classics) Paperback - 2009

by Voltaire, Francois

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One of Penguin Classics's most popular translations-now also in our elegant black spine dress

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  • Title Candide, or Optimism (Penguin Classics)
  • Author Voltaire, Francois
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group, London
  • Date 2009-02-24
  • Features Bibliography, Maps, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR003039444
  • ISBN 9780140455106 / 0140455108
  • Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.84 x 5.3 x 0.5 in (19.91 x 13.46 x 1.27 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects France - Politics and government - 18th, French fiction - 18th century
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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One of Penguin Classics's most popular translations- now also in our elegant black spine dress

From the publisher

François-Marie Arouet, writing under the pseudonym Voltaire, was born in 1694 into a Parisian bourgeois family. Educated by Jesuits, he was an excellent pupil but one quickly enraged by dogma. An early rift with his father—who wished him to study law—led to his choice of letters as a career. Insinuating himself into court circles, he became notorious for lampoons on leading notables and was twice imprisoned in the Bastille.

By his mid-thirties his literary activities precipitated a four-year exile in England where he won the praise of Swift and Pope for his political tracts. His publication, three years later in France, of Lettres philosophiques sur les Anglais (1733)—an attack on French Church and State—forced him to flee again. 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). His old age at Ferney, outside Geneva, was made bright by his adopted daughter, “Belle et Bonne,” and marked by his intercessions in behalf of victims of political injustice. Sharp-witted and lean in his white wig, impatient with all appropriate rituals, he died in Paris in 1778—the foremost French author of his day.


Theo Cuffe translated Voltaire’s Micromégas and Other Short Fictions for Penguin Classics

About the author

Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer, satirist, the embodiment of the 18th-century Enlightenment. Among his best-known works is the satirical short story CANDIDE (1759).

Michael Wood (introducer) is currently Straut Professor of English at Princeton. His books include Stendhal, America in the Movies, The Magician's Doubts, Franz Kafka, and The Road to Delphi.

Theo Cuffe (translator) has also translated a selection of Voltaire's short stories for Penguin, Micromgas and Other Short Fictions.

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