Candide and Other Stories, 2nd Edition
$18.88
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2008
Summary
‘If this is the best of all possible worlds, then what must the others be like?’
Young Candide is tossed on a hilarious tide of misfortune, experiencing the full horror and injustice of this ‘best of all possible worlds’ - the Old and the New - before finally accepting that his old philosophy tutor Dr Pangloss has got it all wrong. There are no grounds for his daft theory of Optimism. Yet life goes on. We must cultivate our garden, for there is certainly room for improvement.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199535613 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199535612 |
| Author: | Voltaire, Roger Pearson |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2008 |
| Weight: | 247g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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Voltaire
Translated by Roger Pearson, University Lecturer in French Fellow and Tutor in French University of Oxford. In addition to Voltaire, Roger Pearson has translated Zola, La Bête humaine, and Maupassant, A Life, and Zola’s Germinal for Penguin.
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