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Candide and Other Stories
(Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
von Roger Pearson, Roger Voltaire/ Pearson, Francois M. Voltaire
Hardcover, 376 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1992 von Everyman's Library
ISBN-13: 978-0-679-41746-0, ISBN: 0-679-41746-X
" Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the philosophical optimism that proclaims that all disaster and human suffering is part of a benevolent cosmic plan. Fast, funny, often outrageo ..."
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