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Candide, or Optimism

Voltaire 1694-1778 (Author). Cuffe, Theo. (Added Author).

Summary: When his love for the Baron's daughter is discovered, Candide is cast out to make his own way in the world. And so he and his companions begin a breathless tour of Europe, South America and Asia, as an outrageous series of disasters befall them earthquakes, syphilis, a brush with the Inquisition, and murder, testing the young hero's optimism.

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  • ISBN: 9780140455106 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0140455108 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: print
    155 pages ; 20 cm.
  • Publisher: London, England : Penguin Books, 2005.

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General Note:
Appendices include an alternative version of the opening of Chapter 22; Voltaire's Poem on the Lisbon disaster; and entries from Voltaire's Philosophical dictionary.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Language Note:
Translated from the French.

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