Candide - Softcover
Paperback. Pub Date :2007-07-26 Pages: 112 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Classics Brought up in the household of a powerful Baron. Candide is an open-minded young man. whose tutor. Pangloss. has instilled in him the belief that all is for the best. But when his love for the Barons rosy-cheeked daughter is discovered. Candide is cast out to make his own way in the world. And so he and his various companions begin a breathless tour of Europe. South America and Asia. as an outrageous series of disasters befall them - earthquakes. syphilis. a brush with the Inquisition. murder - sorely testing the young heros optimism.
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Voltaire will always be regarded as the biggest name of recent literature, and perhaps throughout all the centuries. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Unabridged version of the classic French satire
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0140624422
- ISBN 13 9780140624427
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages112
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