Candide And Other Stories

Author : Voltaire,
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199535612
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Candide and Other Stories written by Voltaire, and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of Candide, a naive youth who is conscripted, shipwrecked, robbed, and tortured by the Inquisition without losing his will to live, is accompanied by four other stories"--NoveList.

Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Candide (憨第德) written by Voltaire and published by Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Signet Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780451505774
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Candide, Zadig, and Selected Stories written by Voltaire and published by Signet Classics. This book was released on 1961-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voltaire, France's most distinguished man of letters, derided the bureaucracies of his day with savage contempt and entertained readers, creating exotic panoramas in his satirical stories, sixteen of which are presented in this volume. This indispensable collection features the author's masterpiece, Candide. Candide parodies the classic, romantic coming-of-age story, with the naïve, ever-optimistic title character confronting the evils of the real world. His forbidden love of a baron's daughter causes Candide to be evicted from his home and sheltered life into a desolate 16th-century Europe--where the strong prey on the weak and misery abounds in the heart of humanity. With Candide and the other stories in this collection, the master of social commentary dissects science and spiritual faith, ethics and legal systems, love and human vanity. Candide * Zadig * Micromegas * The World as It Is * Memnon * Bababec and the Fakirs * History of Scarmentado's Travels * Plato's Dream * Account of the Sickness, Confession, Death, and Apparition of the Jesuit Berthier * Story of a Good Brahman * Jeannot and Colin * An Indian Adventure * Ingenuous * The One-Eyed Porter * Memory's Adventure * Count Chesterfield's Ears and Chaplain Goudman

Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 : 067941746X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Candide and Other Stories written by Voltaire and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 1992-11-03 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 outrageous, the French philosopher's immortal narrative takes Candide around the world to discover that — contrary to the teachings of his distinguished tutor Dr. Pangloss — all is not always for the best. Alive with wit, brilliance, and graceful storytelling, Candide has become Voltaire's most celebrated work.

Author : Verlyn Klinkenborg
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0316029327
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rural Life written by Verlyn Klinkenborg and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hugely admired author of "The Last Fine Time" preserves and makes new the sights, smells, sounds, and poetry of country living. Klinkenborg reveals the beauty of the American landscape, not from a scenic overlook, but through a screened-in porch or from the window of a pickup driving down an empty highway in the teeth of an approaching storm.

Author : Voltaire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Candide; Or, The Optimist written by Voltaire and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN 13 : 131932844X
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Candide written by Voltaire and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Putting Voltaire's portrayal of eighteenth-century European society into proper historical context, Candide, with Related Documents demonstrates how the complexities of his life relates to the events, philosophy, and characters of the novel.

Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Peter Smith Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9780804901178
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Candide and Zadig written by Voltaire and published by Peter Smith Publisher. This book was released on 1966 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nancy Mitford
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590175786
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voltaire in Love written by Nancy Mitford and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inimitable Nancy Mitford’s account of Voltaire’s fifteen-year relationship with the Marquise du Châtelet—the renowned mathematician who introduced Isaac Newton’s revolutionary new physics to France—is a spirited romp in the company of two extraordinary individuals as well as an erudite and gossipy guide to French high society during the Enlightenment. Mitford’s story is as delicious as it is complicated. The marquise was in love with another mathematician, Maupertuis, while she had an unexpected rival for Voltaire’s affections in the future Frederick the Great of Prussia (and later in the philosophe’s own niece). There was, at least, no jealous husband to contend with: the Marquis du Châtelet, Mitford assures us, behaved perfectly. The beau monde of Paris was, however, distraught at the idea of the lovers’ brilliant conversation going to waste on the windswept hills of Champagne, site of the Château de Cirey, where experimental laboratories, a darkroom, and a library of more than twenty-one thousand volumes enabled them to pursue their amours philosophiques. From time to time the threat of impending arrest would send Voltaire scurrying across the border into Holland, but his irrepressible charm—and the interventions of powerful friends—always made it possible for him resume his studies with the cherished marquise.

Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101128127
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Portable Voltaire written by Voltaire and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1977-07-28 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part One of Candide; three stories; selections from The Philosophical Dictionary, The Lisbon Earthquake, and other works; and thirty-five letters.