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The spirit of satire flourished during the Enlightenment, and its crowning achievement was Voltaire's "Candide". It follows the worldwide encounters - with shipwrecks, earthquakes, pestilence and human insanity - of its hero and his absurd tutor, Dr Pangloss.

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"First published in French as Traite sur la Tolerance, A l'occasion de la mort de Jean Calas, 1763"--Title page verso.

A representative selection from Voltaire's work which includes excerpts from his plays, philosophical essays, poetry, and novels.

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A beautiful edition of Voltaire's satirical masterpiece with an introduction by Dr Marine Ganofsky.

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This edition of Candide is here presented in a brand-new translation which contains extra material with pictures and a section on Voltaire's life and work.

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At once a story-length Bildungsroman and a philosophical tale, 'Micromegas' is a classic Enlightenment text, and is accompanied in this volume by thirteen other pieces - inlcuding 'Plato's Dream' and 'Memnon' - all in a new translation by acclaimed French specialist Douglas Parmee.

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Suitable as introductory texts for French language courses in literature and culture, this work is prepared with non-native French speakers in mind, and include an introduction (in French) to the author and the work, the complete novel with both linguistic and cultural notes (French-French), a bibliography and questions in the AP format.

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David Wootton's scalpel-sharp translation of Candide features a brilliant Introduction, a map of Candide's travels, and a selection of those writings of Voltaire, Leibniz, Pope and Rousseau crucial for fully appreciating this eighteenth-century satiric masterpiece that even today retains its celebrated bite.

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Provides an often satirical assessment of the religion, politics, science, and arts of the England that the author observed during his nearly three-year exile. This work also provides a translation of the author's "Proposal for a Letter about the English", a general Introduction, chronology, notes, and bibliography.

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Provides an often satirical assessment of the religion, politics, science, and arts of the England that the author observed during his nearly three-year exile. This work also provides a translation of the author's "Proposal for a Letter about the English", a general Introduction, chronology, notes, and bibliography.

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Voltaire was the nom de plume of Franois-Marie Aroue, an 18th-century philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. Candide, a biting satire on the philosophy of the time, is considered his finest work.