Candide
Candide
Voltaire's Candide
CANDIDE
Translated with an Introduction by John Butt
0-14-044004-6
In a world of bureaucrats, engineers, and producers, Voltaire is the necessary philosopher.
--Gustave Lanson
The Best of All Possible Worlds
An Introduction to Candide
While Candide is without a doubt a farcical, humorous, and far-fetched tale, a seriousness lies beneath its satirical veneer. Candide is the story of an innocent young man embarking on a series of adventures during which he …showed first 75 words of 1988 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1988 total…fully evident in this deliberately revolutionary series of essays on religion, metaphysics, society, and government.
Penguin Classics wishes to thank and credit the following books and writers for information used in this guide:
Haydn Mason, Candide: Optimism Demolished, New York, Macmillan, 1992.
Richter Peyton and Ricardo Ilona, Voltaire, New York, Macmillan, 1980.
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