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Candide

Voltaire

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About this work

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 Baron's 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 hero's optimism.

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Edition identifiers ISBN-10 9575516230

Subjects

  • Conduct of life
  • Readers
  • Literatura francesa
  • Satire
  • Fiction
  • Civilization
  • Moral conditions
  • Enlightenment
  • Politics and government
  • Life
  • French language
  • Philosophy
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ZH-language editions of Candide

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Edition1994 · Gui guan tu shu gong si
Cover not cataloged
Extent
289 pages
Language
Chinese
ISBN-10
9575516230
Paperback2005 · Icon Classics
Cover of Candide (Webster's Chinese-Simplified Thesaurus Edition)
Extent
152 pages
Language
English, Chinese
ISBN-10
0497260875
EAN-13
9780497260873