"Political satire doesn't age well, but occasionally a diatribe contains enough art and universal mirth to survive long after its timeliness has passed. Candide is such a book. Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Candide is steeped in the political and philosophical controversies of the 1750s. But for the general reader, the novel's driving principle is clear enough: the idea (endemic in Voltaire's day) that we ..."
"'If this is the best of all possible worlds, then what must the others be like?' Young Candide is tossed on a hilarious tide of misfortune, experiencing the full horror and injustice of this 'best of all possible worlds' - the Old and the New - before finally accepting that his old philosophy tutor Dr Pangloss has got it all wrong. There are no grounds for his daft theory of Optimism. Yet life goes on. We must cultivate our garden, ..."
"'If this is the best of all possible worlds, then what must the others be like?' "Candide", published simultaneously in five European capitals in 1759, became an instant bestseller and is now regarded by many as one of the key texts of the Enlightenment. A master story-teller, Voltaire found the philosophical tale the perfect vehicle for his preoccupations with evil, human folly, and intolerance. He combined often wildly entertaining ac ..."
"Candide, the wittiest and best-loved book of a genius who is still unequaled in his ability to spin art out of philosophy, became a huge bestseller in Europe after it was published in 1759. Voltaire, skeptical of the systems of philosophy that were floated about to explain the workings of the world, used this satirical story about the optimist Candide and his friend Dr. Pangloss to interrogate and discredit the philosophies and approach ..."
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Candide(7th Edition) von David A. Ross, FrancoisVoltaire Paperback, 208 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2007 von European Masterpieces, Moliã¨Re & Co., Newark Del. ISBN-13: 978-1-58977-038-6, ISBN: 1-58977-038-2
"Candide, or Optimism (1759) written by Voltaire, the shining star of the French Enlightenment, is a biting, hilarious and frequently outrageous satire that pokes philosophical fun at -- of all things -- the doctrine of optimism. Candide is a nave youth stubbornly adhering to the notion that "all is for the best in this, the best of all possible worlds," despite being cast into a flood of misfortunes and picaresque misadventures that ta ..."
"In his Philosophical Letters, Voltaire provides a pungent and often satirical assessment of the religion, politics, science, and arts of the England he observed during his nearly three-year exile. In addition to the Letters, this edition provides a translation of Voltaire's Proposal for a Letter about the English, a general Introduction, chronology, notes, and bibliography."
Candide(Updated) A Kaplan French-Language Vocabulary Building Novel (English and French Edition) von FrancoisVoltaire, Mona Mulhair Paperback, 286 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2005 von Kaplan Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-8054-9, ISBN: 0-7432-8054-7
"The quintessential Enlightenment novel, Candide follows the satirical adventures of its amiable but naive hero through 18th century Europe, Turkey, and South America, as he learns to cope realistically in the "best of all possible worlds" -- in spite of his misguided reliance on the advice of the optimist Pangloss.A classic work of French literature presented in a unique format: Full French text of the novel on the right-hand pages Mor ..."
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Complete Works of Voltaire, hrsg. von W. H. Barber and Ulla Kölving, Bd. 14,
Oxford 1989, S. 359-41 1. Bergmann, Peter Gabriel ... Borzeszkowski, Horst-
Heino v., Bemerkungen zum Verhältnis von Newton und Locke, in: Locke-
Kolloquium. Halle 1985, Kongreß und ... Darwin und die Evolutionstheorie, hrsg.
von Kurt Bayertz, Bernhard Heidtmann und Hans- Jörg Rhein ..."
Candide(1st Edition) (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) von Daniel Gordon, Daniel Gordon Voltaire, FrancoisVoltaire Paperback, 138 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1998 von Bedford/St. Martin's ISBN-13: 978-0-312-14854-6, ISBN: 0-312-14854-2
"Political satire doesn't age well, but occasionally a diatribe contains enough art and universal mirth to survive long after its timeliness has passed. Candide is such a book. Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Candide is steeped in the political and philosophical controversies of the 1750s. But for the general reader, the novel's driving principle is clear enough: the idea (endemic in Voltaire's day) that we ..."
Candide (Blackwell's French Texts) von O. R. Taylor, Haydn Mason, FrancoisVoltaire Paperback, 106 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1987 von Blackwell Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-631-00400-4, ISBN: 0-631-00400-9
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"Inspired by Voltaire's two-year stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightenment. His controversial pronouncements on politics, philosophy, religion, and literature have placed the Letters among the great Augustan satires. Voltaire wrote most of the book in English, in which he was fluent and witty, and it fast became a bestseller in Britain. He re-wrote it in French as the Lettres Philosophiques, and current ..."
""Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary", first published in 1764, is a series of short, radical essays - alphabetically arranged - that form a brilliant and bitter analysis of the social and religious conventions that then dominated eighteenth-century French thought. One of the masterpieces of the Enlightenment, this enormously influential work of sardonic wit - more a collection of essays arranged alphabetically, than a conventional dict ..."