Candide
by Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Evanston, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
London and New York: Nonesuch. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Sauvage, Sylvain. Beautiful copy of the Heritage/Nonesuch Candide, with delicate tinted illustrations from Sylvain Sauvage. Heritage Club Sandglass laid in. Book fine in blue and white fleur-de-lis cloth boards, plain cardboard slipcover shows signs of wear but is intact. No date, circa 1940.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Books, Interesting and Odd & Sleepyside Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001708
- Title
- Candide
- Author
- Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de
- Illustrator
- Sauvage, Sylvain
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Nonesuch
- Place of Publication
- London and New York
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾"- 9&fr
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Heritage
- Bookseller catalogs
- Heritage Press;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Books, Interesting and Odd & Sleepyside Books
Biblio member since 2019
Evanston, Illinois
About Books, Interesting and Odd & Sleepyside Books
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