Andre Maurois Foreward (2 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Bantam Classic, March 1981. Mass Market Paperback. Second printing, August 1981. Near Fine. Lightly tanned, but unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 122 pages. The story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the philosophical optimism that proclaims that all disaster and human suffering is part of a benevolent cosmic plan. Sheilah Beckett (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Hbk, square 8vo, 106pp, profusely illustr full-page b+w photos throughout, no dj as issued, quarter cloth over pictorial laminated boards, slight sunfading to spine, otherwise a fine, clean, tight and unmarked text.