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ISBN: 0553210920

ISBN13: 9780553210927

Candide, ou l'Optimisme

Name: Voltaire is having too much fun
Item: Candide, ou l&#39;Optimisme
Rating: 4
Author: Gonzo

By Voltaire and Francois Marie Arouet De Voltaire

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Book Overview

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." This description may be from another edition of this product.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0553210920

ISBN13:9780553210927

Release Date:January 1981

Publisher:Bantam Books

Length:122 Pages

Weight:0.15 lbs.

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Rated 4 stars
Voltaire is having too much fun

By Gonzo, April 9, 2021 Verified Purchase

For as short as Candide is, I can't imagine Voltaire having anything but a giggling grin on his face while making his secretary write it. Candide exists to poke endless fun at medieval-era writing styles and does so with gusto. And even without the context, it's written just slickly enough for the jokes to still land properly. A little short, but still fun to read regardless.

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Rated 5 stars
Entertaining

By Thriftbooks.com User, February 20, 2008

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 knowledge of European history to understand it. Buy it and enjoy.

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Rated 5 stars
Great edition; better book

By Thriftbooks.com User, December 31, 2006

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 ever read--and I've read Pynchon, Vonnegut, and plenty of others. The absurdity of the novel and the nonchalance of its delivery...

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Rated 5 stars
Take a closer look at the cover!

By Thriftbooks.com User, November 5, 2005

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 (complements of Chris Ware, some of his graphic novels include : The Acme Novelty Library, Quimby the Mouse and Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest...

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Rated 5 stars
Action-packed, hilarious, vulgar ... brilliant!

By Thriftbooks.com User, August 31, 2003

Francois-Marie Arouet (pen name Voltaire) was one of the greatest thinkers of 18th-century Europe. In his brief novella CANDIDE -- which takes less than two hours to read -- he explains the purpose of human existence, with brilliant observations and witty humor. Voltaire offers up numerous philosophies devised by the greatest minds in history, none of which makes the remotest sense in the crazy, multi-continent, tragedy-ridden...

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