Candide
by Voltaire
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Spine slightly darkened and leaning; lightly rubbed and darkened to boards. Very good.
- Seller
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Addison, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Jean Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire. Rockwell Kent, illustrator. Candide. New York: Random House, 1929. Limited edition, No. 1,408 of 1,470 copies.
Signed by Rockwell Kent.
Quarto. 111pp. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Publisher's cream-colored pictorial cloth, stamped in gilt to spine and front cover, patterned endleaves.
.Synopsis
Candide, ou l'Optimisme (in French) is a French satire written in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candide: or, All for the Best (1759); Candide: or, The Optimist (1762); and Candide: or, Optimism (1947). The novella begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply optimism) by his tutor, Pangloss.
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- Bookseller
- InkQ Rare Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46
- Title
- Candide
- Author
- Voltaire
- Illustrator
- Rockwell Kent
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Spine slightly darkened and leaning; lightly rubbed and darkened to boards. Very good.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited edition, No. 1,408 of 1,470 copies
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- Rockwell Kent
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