Author: Voltaire
Publisher: Pengui
Keywords: classics, penguin, england, letters
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2000-01-03
List price: $5.33
ISBN-10: 014044386X
ISBN-13: 9780140443868

Also known as the Lettres anglaises ou philosophiques, Voltaire’s response to his exile in England offered the French public of 1734 a panoramic view of British culture. Perceiving them as a veiled attack against the ancien regime, however, the French government ordered the letters burned and Voltaire persecuted.

Author: Voltaire
Publisher: CreateSpace
Keywords: candide
Number of Pages: 130
Published: 2010-02-06
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1450576931
ISBN-13: 9781450576932

Voltaire’s satire relates the fantastical story of the optimistic Candide as he is forced from his sheltered life and ventures into the world.

Author: Voltaire
Publisher: Prestwick House, Inc.
Keywords: classic, touchstone, literary, candide
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2006-09-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1580491626
ISBN-13: 9781580491624

This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classic includes a glossary and reader’s notes to help the modern reader appreciate Voltaire’s complex approach to the human condition. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE’S satiric attack, Candide, first appearing in 1759, mocked the Enlightenment notion that this is the best of all possible worlds and that suffering is merely the result of free will. Through the misadventures of philosopher and teacher Dr. Pangloss and his student Candide as they travel the world-fleeing invasions, earthquakes, pirates, and brutal executions-we learn that

Author: Voltaire
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: history, philosophy, texts, cambridge, treatise, tolerance, voltaire
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2000-11-20
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 0521649692
ISBN-13: 9780521649698

The works presented in this volume, in a new English translation, are among the most important and characteristic texts of the Enlightenment, and bring together all three aspects of Voltaire: the writer, the doer and the philosophe. Originating in Voltaire’s campaign to exonerate Jean Calas, they are works of polemical brilliance, informed by his deism and humanism and by Enlightenment values and ideals more generally. The issues that they raise, concerning questions of tolerance and human dignity, are still highly relevant to our own times.

Author: Voltaire
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: classics, world, oxford, stories, candide
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-05-15
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 0199535612
ISBN-13: 9780199535613

Author: Voltaire
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: optimism, candide
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2006-12-15
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0300119879
ISBN-13: 9780300119879

In this new translation of Voltaire’s Candide, distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the French novel’s irreverent spirit and offers a vivid, contemporary version of the 250-year-old text. Raffel casts the novel in an English idiom that--had Voltaire been a twenty-first-century American--he might himself have employed. The translation is immediate and unencumbered, and for the first time makes Voltaire the satirist a wicked pleasure for English-speaking readers.Candide recounts the fantastically improbable travels, adventures, and misfortunes of the young Candide, his beloved Cun

Author: Voltaire
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: editions, thrift, dover, candide
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 1991-01-01
List price: $1.50
ISBN-10: 0486266893
ISBN-13: 9780486266893

Witty and caustic, Candide has ranked as one of the world’s great satires since its first publication in 1759. In the story of the trials and travails of the youthful Candide, his mentor Dr. Pangloss, and a host of other characters, Voltaire mercilessly satirizes and exposes romance, science, philosophy, religion and government—the ideas and institutions men live by.