| Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Contributor(s): Voltaire (Author), Cuffe, Theo (Translator), Wood, Michael (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0143039423 ISBN-13: 9780143039426 Publisher: Penguin Group OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2005 Annotation: One of Western literature's most glorious and incisive satires is now available in a brilliant new translation as a Penguin classics Deluxe Edition. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Satire - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2005052124 |
| Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.7" W x 8.3" (0.51 lbs) 208 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 28450 Reading Level: 7.3 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 5.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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." |