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Candide: Or Optimism

Candide: Or Optimism

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Candide: Or Optimism

by Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire

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Condition: Good; Light edgewear to boards; very small exposure of netting inside 1st page. small light markings 3rd page otherwise very good condition. Interior clean copy. Translated by Richard Aldington, with an introduction by Paul Morand, twenty colour illustrated plates illustrated by Sylvain Sauvage. Gilt lettering on the spine. Blue patterned covers

Synopsis

Candide, ou l'Optimisme (in French) is a French satire written in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candide: or, All for the Best (1759); Candide: or, The Optimist (1762); and Candide: or, Optimism (1947). It begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply optimism) by his mentor, Pangloss.

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Bookseller
Thistle and Heather Books GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
1843
Title
Candide: Or Optimism
Author
Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
Illustrator
Sylvain Sauvage
Book Condition
Used - Good+
Quantity Available
1
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
The Nonesuch Press
Date Published
1951
Pages
147
Weight
0.00 lbs
Bookseller catalogs
Literature; Fiction;

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