Description: 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 na ve 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." Author: Voltaire Publisher: Penguin Group Published: 10/25/2005 Pages: 208 Binding Type: Paperback Weight: 0.51lbs Size: Book and Mortar Record Store Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) -- Voltaire 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 na ve 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." Author: Voltaire Publisher: Penguin Group Published: 10/25/2005 Pages: 208 Binding Type: Paperback Weight: 0.51lbs Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 0.50d ISBN: 9780143039426 Age Range: 18-UP Accelerated Reader: Reading Level: 7.3 Point Value: 5 Interest Level: Upper Grade Quiz #/Name: 28450 / Candide Review Citation(s): Ingram Advance 11/01/2005 pg. 92 Library Journal 11/15/2005 pg. 107 About the Author 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.
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Book Title: Candide : or Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Topic: Classics, General, Satire, Literary
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2005
Illustrator: Yes, Ware, Chris
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 8 Oz
Item Length: 8.4 in
Author: Francois Voltaire
Book Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
Item Width: 5.6 in
Format: Uk-B Format Paperback
