Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Wordsworth Classics
ISBN-10
1840227303
ISBN-13
9781840227307
Edition
UK ed.
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Imprint
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 15th, 2014
Print length
368 Pages
Weight
268 grams
Dimensions
20.00 x 12.90 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
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Voltaire was the nom de plume of François-Marie Aroue, an 18th-century philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. Candide, a biting satire on the philosophy of the time, is considered his finest work.
With an Introduction and Notes by James Fowler, Senior Lecturer in French, University of Kent
Candide (1759) is a bright, colourful literary firework display of a novella. With sparkling wit and biting humour, Voltaire hits several targets with fierce and comic satire: organised religion, the overweening pride of aristocrats, merchants'' greed, colonial ambition and the hopeless complacency of Leibnizian philosophy that believes ''all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds''. Through this rites of passage story, with his central character, Candide, a naïve and impressionable young man, Voltaire attacks the social ills of his day, which remarkably remain as pertinent now as ever.
Zadig is a tale of love and detection. Edgar Allan Poe was inspired by this story when he created C. Auguste Dupin in ''The Murders in the Rue Morgue'', a story which established the modern detective fiction genre. The Ingenu recounts how a young man raised by Huron Indians discover the ways of Europe. Nanine is a sharp three act comedy concerned with marital dilemmas. In all these works Voltaire manages to combine humour with trenchant satire in a highly entertaining fashion.
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