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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). The novella 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 tutor, Pangloss.
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- Bookseller
- Rainy Day Paperback Exchange (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 78P033
- Title
- Candide
- Author
- Voltaire
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VERY GOOD+
- Publisher
- Librairie Larousse
- Place of Publication
- Paris, France
- Date Published
- 1968
- Bookseller catalogs
- FICTION; FRENCH; FICTION / Literary;
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