Candide and other stories / Voltaire ; translated from the French with an introduction and notes by Roger Pearson.

Short stories. Selections. English

9780679417460
067941746X

New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1992.

English

lviii, 307 p. ; 22 cm.

PQ2082.C3 E5 1992

843/.5

The spirit of satire flourished during the Enlightenment as in no other period, and the crowning achievement of that caustic, brilliantly learned age was Voltaire's Candide, published in 1759, at the height of its author's enormous European fame. Following the worldwide encounters - with shipwrecks, earthquakes, pestilence, and human insanity - of its hero and his incomparably absurd tutor, Dr. Pangloss, Candide is the most entertaining of all philosophical novels and the most philosophical of entertainments.

Includes bibliographical references.

Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) ; 130.

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