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Francois Voltaire: Candide, or Optimism

In Candide, Voltaire threw down an audacious challenge to the philosophical views of the Enlightenment to create one of the most glorious satires of the eighteenth century.
ISBN: 9780140455106
Author: Francois Voltaire
Page: 155
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 2005
Format: Book
Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
Language: English

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Stock: 1-10 copies

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His eponymous hero is an innocent young man whose tutor, Pangloss, has instilled in him the belief that 'all is for the best'. But when his love for the Baron's rosy-cheeked daughter is discovered, Candide is cast out to make his own fortune. As he and his various companions roam over the world, an outrageous series of disasters - earthquakes, syphilis, the Inquisition - sorely test the young hero's optimism, holding a mirror up to all fanatics, zealots and moral reformers of humankind.

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