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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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 theory of philsopher Baron von Leibnitz that this planet is...

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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 remarkable and insightful tale. Theo Cuffe does great things...

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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 a baron's daughter causes Candide to be evicted from his...

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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.

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Posted: Feb-20-2008

Entertaining

Candide is certainly humorous for those that understand medieval to early modern European history.This satire is cynical much like Erasmus' "Praise of Folly". Voltaire attacks many of the issues of European society. You do not need to be a historian to appreciate this work, or have a great...

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Posted: Feb-07-2008

"O che sciagura d'essere senza coglioni!"

If you thought 18th century satire is irrelevant today, you might want to know the meaning of that Italian phrase, uttered by a eunuch at the sight of an abandoned and beautiful young lady in the story: "Oh, what a misfortune to be without balls!"If you've made the decision to read Candide...

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Posted: Oct-28-2007

A fun adventure story

I think a lot of readers miss the point of this book. It is a romantic adventure story like the Odyssey and The Princess Bride, not some political rant or whatever people misconstrue it to be. It is named after the star of the book, Candide, a young nobleboy that's sent out on his own in the 18th...

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Posted: Feb-12-2007

Great Cover

It was in perfect condition; no tears, rips, and a hilarious cover to top it all off.

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Posted: Jan-01-2007

Great edition; better book

When I imagined what 18th-century literature would be like, I figured there'd be lots of dated, archaic humor and cultural references I'd never understand. CANDIDE, as it happens, contains anything but the former, and very few of the latter.In fact, this turned out to be the funniest book I've...

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Posted: Nov-05-2005

Take a closer look at the cover!

I read Candide years ago; however, while looking through the shelves of the local bookstore I was stopped dead in my tracks by this new presentation. Enlarge the image of the new cover at the top of the page to be treated to a whimsical stick figure rendition of a majority of the story...

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