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Candide -and- Zadig (Franklin Library Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers series)
by VOLTAIRE (François-Marie AROUET)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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About This Item
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library. Near Fine. 1977. Hardcover. A deluxe leatherbound reprint edition combining two philosophical novellas of Voltaire, the pen name of François-Marie Arouet. Translated from the French by the noted Scottish novelist and poet Tobias Smollet. With illustrations by Van Kaufman. Includes a portrait of Voltaire by Uldis Klavins near front of volume. Issued as an entry in the publisher's Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers series. One of an unspecified number in a limited edition. --- Bound in full red bonded leather covers with three raised bands on spine. Spine titling, elaborate decorations to covers and spine, and textblock edges all in bright gilt. Interior leaves printed on high-quality papers. Red silk moire endpapers, with matching sewn-in satin ribbon placemarker. Volume lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- With a hint of sunning to spine and four insignificant scratches to gilding on textblock fore-edge, else a Fine copy: clean, tightly-bound, bright and almost certainly unread.; Tall Octavo (9 to 10 in. tall); (8), 255 pages .
Synopsis
Candide, ou l'Optimisme (in French) is a French satire written in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candide: or, All for the Best (1759); Candide: or, The Optimist (1762); and Candide: or, Optimism (1947). The novella begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply optimism) by his tutor, Pangloss.
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- Title
- Candide -and- Zadig (Franklin Library Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers series)
- Author
- VOLTAIRE (François-Marie AROUET)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, Pennsylvania
- Date Published
- 1977
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