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Candide and other stories / Voltaire ; translated from the French with an introduction and notes by Roger Pearson.
LIBRA - Special PQ2082.C3 E5 1992
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Voltaire, 1694-1778.
- Series:
- Everyman's library
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, French--18th century--Translations into English.
- Short stories, French.
- Short stories.
- Genre:
- Short stories, French.
- Translations.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- lviii, 307 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1992.
- Summary:
- The spirit of satire flourished during the Enlightenment as in no other period, and the crowning achievement of that caustic, brilliantly learned age was Voltaire's Candide, published in 1759, at the height of its author's enormous European fame. Following the worldwide encounters - with shipwrecks, earthquakes, pestilence, and human insanity - of its hero and his incomparably absurd tutor, Dr. Pangloss, Candide is the most entertaining of all philosophical novels and the most philosophical of entertainments.
- Contents:
- Candide
- Micromegas
- Zadig
- The ingenu
- The white bull.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page xxxix).
- Other Format:
- Online version: Voltaire, 1694-1778. Short stories. English. Selections. Candide and other stories.
- ISBN:
- 067941746X
- 9780679417460
- OCLC:
- 9141665
- Online:
- Publisher description
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