Candide
(Book - Regular Print)
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New York : Quality Paperback Book Club, [1991].
Physical Desc
208 pages ; 21 cm.
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Published
New York : Quality Paperback Book Club, [1991].
Format
Book - Regular Print
Language
English
Lexile measure
1010
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Translation of: Candide.
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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 - such as the recent earthquakes in Lima and Lisbon - 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 involved. In Candide he whisks his young hero and friends through a ludicrous variety of tortures, tragedies and reversals of fortune, in the company of Pangloss, a 'metaphysico-theologo-cosmolo-nigologist' of unflinching optimism. The result is one of the glories of eighteenth-century satire.
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Accelerated Reader,UG,7.3,5.0,Quiz No. 28450 EN Fiction
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Accelerated Reader,UG,7.3,5.0,Quiz No. 28450 EN Fiction
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Translated into English from French.
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| Location | Call Number | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Chino Valley Public Library - NF - Nonfiction Books | 843.54 VOL | Find It Now |
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Voltaire, 1., Voltaire., & Butt, J. (1991). Candide . Quality Paperback Book Club.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Voltaire, 1694-1778, Voltaire and John Butt. 1991. Candide. Quality Paperback Book Club.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Voltaire, 1694-1778, Voltaire and John Butt. Candide Quality Paperback Book Club, 1991.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Voltaire, 1694-1778,, Voltaire, and John Butt. Candide Quality Paperback Book Club, 1991.
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