Candide (1948)

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Candide (1948)
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Candide (1948)

Voltaire
Edition year 1948
Binding Buckram
Illustrator Kenneth Hobson
Translator Henry Morley
Weight 1 Kg
Pages 136
Dimensions 22.1 × 13.4 cm

Edition details

Candide or The Optimist by Voltaire. Translated by Henry Morley. 7 colour lithographs by Kenneth Hobson. Quarter-bound in black buckram with marbled paper covers. Colour printed yellow dust-jacket. 136pp. 22.1x13.4cm

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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