Description: *Buy used and save money!* Description: If you have any questions regarding the item, you can click "contact seller" on the right side under seller information and you can send questions there. Title: Voltaire - Candide: Or OptimismAuthor: Voltaire and John Butt (Translator)Softcover: 144 pagesISBN-10: 0140440046ISBN-13: 978-0140440041Publisher: Penguin Classics (June 30, 1950) Language: EnglishBest Sellers Rank: #533,701 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #412 in Study Skills (Books) #3,428 in Classic American Literature #5,590 in Fiction Satire Shipment: I only ship to United States. All my items are usually shipped 1 business day after payment has been received. Sellers are not responsible for service transit time. Transit times are provided by the carrier, exclude weekends and holidays, and may vary with package origin and destination, particularly during peak periods. I am not responsible for wrong or undeliverable address. I reserve the right to charge the shipping fee again for returned items due to wrong address. Feedback: I would greatly appreciate your feedback and the system will automatically leave feedback for you. I have always been trying my best to provide the best service and reliable products for every customer. Please contact me via eBay message to resolve the issue before leaving negative feedback. I will answer all emails as quickly as possible. Synopsis of the book: "All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds" It was the indifferent shrug and callous inertia that this "optimism" concealed which so angered Voltaire, who found the "all for the best" approach a patently inadequate response to suffering, to natural disasters, not to mention the questions of illness and man-made war. Moreover, as the rebel whose satiric genius had earned him not only international acclaim, but two stays in the Bastille, flogging, and exile, Voltaire knew personally what suffering entailed. In Candide he whisks his young hero and friends through a ludicrous variety of tortures, tragedies, and a reversal of fortune, in the company of Pangloss, a "metaphysico-theologo-comolo-nigologist" of unflinching optimism. The result is one of the glories of eighteenth-century satire. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. About the Author: François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778) is known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit and his advocacy for freedom of speech and religion. Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, histories, and scientific expositions. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and 2,000 books and pamphlets. He was one of the first authors to become renowned and commercially successful internationally. He was an outspoken advocate of civil liberties, and he was at constant risk from the strict censorship laws of the Catholic French monarchy. His polemics witheringly satirized intolerance, religious dogma, and the French institutions of his day.
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Book Title: Voltaire - Candide: Or Optimism
Narrative Type: Novel
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Adult & Further Education, Western, College, English, West, Voltaire Candide by Voltaire, Voltaire Candide, Voltaire, Candide, High School, 18th Century, Age of Enlightenment, Short Stories, Literature, Satire
Country: USA
Subject: Literature, English
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Textbook
Author: Voltaire
Publication Year: 1950
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Genre: Classics
Region: United States
Era: 18th Century
Educational Level: College
Field of Study: Literature, English
Cultural Region: French Literature
Literary Period/Movement: Enlightenment
Age Level: Adults, Young Adults
Special Attributes: Penguin Classics
