Candide: Or, Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

This new translation of one of Western literature?s most glorious satires tells of the outrageous adventures of the na?ve Candide, who doggedly believes that "all is for the best" even when faced with injustice, suffering, and despair. more

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4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Apr-08-2009; Candide or Optimism is Voltaire's sceptically acerbic look at a world of woes and travails; Candide is one of the world's greatest philosophical novels. Its author is Voltaire (1694-1178) whose pen was warmed up in hell with sceptical inquiry into the vagaries of human existence. In this brief book of 100 pages he assails the...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-16-2009; Black and White; This Edition of Candide leaves the Dover Thrift, Barnes and Noble, Bantam, Oxford World editions in the dust, and, although Norton likes to think they are oh..so great, their editions don't come close to Penguin's Deluxe of Voltaire's...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Apr-24-2008; Voltaire's Magnum Opus; Candide: Or Optimism parodies the classic, romantic coming-of-age story, with the young title character, Candide - the ignorant, ever-optimistic metaphysician of Westphalia- confronting the evils of the real world. His forbidden love of...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Feb-27-2008; :); I enjoyed this book, but it was irritating looking up the footnotes. They made it especially amusing and odd, but it definitely isn't my favorite.; read full review | report as inappropriate

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4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Apr-08-2009; Candide or Optimism is Voltaire's sceptically acerbic look at a world of woes and travails; Candide is one of the world's greatest philosophical novels. Its author is Voltaire (1694-1178) whose pen was warmed up in hell with sceptical inquiry into the vagaries of human existence. In this brief book of 100 pages he assails the...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Feb-27-2008; :); I enjoyed this book, but it was irritating looking up the footnotes. They made it especially amusing and odd, but it definitely isn't my favorite.; read full review | report as inappropriate