Candide and Other Stories: Introduced by Roger Pearson (Everyman's Library Classics Series) - Hardcover

Voltaire

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067941746X ISBN 13: 9780679417460

Verlag: Everyman's Library, 1992

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Book by Voltaire

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"When we observe such things as the recrudescence of fundamentalism in the United States, the horrors of religious fanaticism in the Middle East, the appalling danger which the stubbornness of political intolerance presents to the whole world, we must surely conclude that we can still profit by the example of lucidity, the acumen, the intellectual honesty and the moral courage of Voltaire."
--A. J. Ayer

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Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the philosophical optimism that proclaims that all disaster and human suffering is part of a benevolent cosmic plan. Fast, funny, often outrageous, the French philosopher's immortal narrative takes Candide around the world to discover that — contrary to the teachings of his distinguished tutor Dr. Pangloss — all is not always for the best. Alive with wit, brilliance, and graceful storytelling, Candide has become Voltaire's most celebrated work.

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• Verlag: Everyman's Library
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• ISBN 10: 067941746X
• ISBN 13: 9780679417460
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368