ISBN: 9780679600039 - And Philosophical Letters (modern Library) (6 results)

Condition: Good. Reprint. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Reprint. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Hardback. Condition: Fair.

Hardback. Condition: Fair.

grey full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. looks new. like new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. old shadow from name sticker on front flyleaf, otherwise contents free of markings. price clipped dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first printing (#1 in # line) of this edition. decorative endpapers. xi+283p.+ colophon. endnotes. bibliography. appendix. fiction. novels. philosophy. french literature. history of england. memoirs. ~ A flamboyant and controversial personality of enormous wit and intelligence, Voltaire is one of the most intriguing figures of the eighteenth century Enlightenment. His masterpiece is Candide, a brilliant satire on the theory that '' the world is the best of all possible worlds." The book traces the picaresque adventures of the guileless Candide, who is forced into the army, flogged, shipwrecked, betrayed, robbed, separated from his beloved Cunegonde, tortured by the Inquisition, etc., all without losing his resilience and will to live. Candide is accompanied in this edition by the Philosophical Letters, published after Voltaire had returned to France from a long sojourn in England, where he had met the leading literary and intellectual figures of the day. Also known as Letters Concerning the English Nation, the book was burned by French authorities, who were offended by the implication that English institutions were superior to their own, and a warrant was put out for Voltaire's arrest. …

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Voltaire CANDIDE AND PHILOSOPHICAL LETTERS New York: The Modern Library 1992 Grey publisher's cloth is pristine save for very mild bumping at top and bottom of spine. Dust jacket is new looking on front but slightly scuffed on back. Pages are clean and crisp, held tight by binding.…