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: Obscure Press
Keywords: candide
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2010-01-18
List price: $33.45
ISBN-10: 1444656783
ISBN-13: 9781444656787
Originally published in 1941. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author: Voltaire
Publisher: Obscure Press
Keywords: candide
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2010-01-18
List price: $26.45
ISBN-10: 1444656465
ISBN-13: 9781444656466
Originally published in 1941. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author: Voltaire
Publisher: Echo Library
Keywords: candide
Number of Pages: 92
Published: 2010-01-27
List price: $11.90
ISBN-10: 140685476X
ISBN-13: 9781406854763
A satirical novella first published in 1759, this edition is transcribed from the American edition of 1918 with an introduction by Philip Littell.
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: Filiquarian
Keywords: volume, candide
Number of Pages: 174
Published: 2008-01-08
List price: $4.99
ISBN-10: 1599865912
ISBN-13: 9781599865911
Author: Hugh Patrick
Publisher: Matador
Keywords: redux, candide
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2010-05-03
List price: $12.04
ISBN-10: 1848763190
ISBN-13: 9781848763197
Candide’s tutor Pangloss teaches the doctrine of economic individualism. Every day he proves that the unfettered market provides the best possible allocation of resources...In Candide Redux, inspired by Voltaire ’s seminal work Candide, the doctrine of the perfect market is held up to satire. Candide and his companions are thrown into a fast-moving and fantastical adventure, illustrating by comic example the themes of self-delusion and the contrast between ideology and experience. Candide journeys to South America and back via El Dorado and suffers many trials. But his love for Pen
