Candide : Or Optimism
by De Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Tolar, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Nonesuch Press, 1929. Translated from the French by Richard Aldington. 20 illustrations in full color. Boards have a navy fluer de lis pattern, lightly worn. Pages are clean, text is unmarked, binding is tight.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Sauvage, Sylvain. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
Synopsis
Candide, ou l'Optimisme (in French) is a French satire written in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candide: or, All for the Best (1759); Candide: or, The Optimist (1762); and Candide: or, Optimism (1947). It begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply optimism) by his mentor, Pangloss.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Top Notch books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009065
- Title
- Candide : Or Optimism
- Author
- De Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet
- Illustrator
- Sauvage, Sylvain
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- The Nonesuch Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
- Keywords
- Fiction Literature
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