Candide - Voltaire - Folio Society - 2016 1st ed. - Quentin Blake - VGC

Candide - Voltaire - Folio Society - 2016 1st ed. - Quentin Blake - VGC

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Candide - Voltaire - Folio Society - 2016 1st ed. - Quentin Blake - VGC
Folio Society
Literature

Candide

Voltaire

£68.99
Edition year 2016
Printing year 2016
First edition Yes
Binding Cloth
Illustrator Quentin Blake
Translator Tobias Smollett
Weight 1.25 Kg
Pages 208
Dimensions 25.3 × 19 cm
Condition Very Good
Condition notes In very good overall condition.

Edition details

Candide by Voltaire. Standard edition of limited edition. Introduced by Julian Barnes. 17 colour and 28 black & white illustrations by Quentin Blake. Bound in cloth, blocked with a design by the artist. 208pp. 10x7½pp.

About the book

Voltaire's Candide follows a naïve young man who has been taught that everything happens for the best in the best of all possible worlds. A succession of wars, disasters, betrayals and absurd adventures steadily destroys this optimistic philosophy. Fast-paced and sharply satirical, the book attacks religious hypocrisy, political cruelty and philosophical complacency while asking how people can live sensibly in an imperfect world.

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