Candide and Other Stories by Voltaire

Candide and Other Stories

Voltaire with Roger Pearson (Translator)

307 pages first pub 1759 (editions)

fiction classics philosophy short stories adventurous slow-paced
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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...

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