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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100143039423
ISBN-139780143039426
eBay Product ID (ePID)46990739
Product Key Features
Book TitleCandide : or Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Number of Pages208 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2005
TopicClassics, General, Satire, Literary
IllustratorYes, Ware, Chris
GenreFiction
AuthorFrancois Voltaire
Book SeriesPenguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
FormatUk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight8 Oz
Item Length8.4 in
Item Width5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2005-052124
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Dewey Edition22
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal843/.5
Grade ToUP
SynopsisWith its vibrant new translation, perceptive introduction, and witty packaging, this new edition of Voltaire's masterpiece belongs in the hands of every reader pondering our assumptions about human behavior and our place in the world. Candide tells of the hilarious adventures of the naive Candide, who doggedly believes that "all is for the best" even when faced with injustice, suffering, and despair. Controversial and entertaining, Candide is a book that is vitally relevant today in our world pervaded by-as Candide would say-"the mania for insisting that all is well when all is by no means well.", With its vibrant new translation, perceptive introduction, and witty packaging, this new edition of Voltaire's masterpiece belongs in the hands of every reader pondering our assumptions about human behavior and our place in the world. Candide tells of the hilarious adventures of the na ve Candide, who doggedly believes that "all is for the best" even when faced with injustice, suffering, and despair. Controversial and entertaining, Candide is a book that is vitally relevant today in our world pervaded by--as Candide would say--"the mania for insisting that all is well when all is by no means well."
LC Classification NumberPQ2082.C3E5 2005d
