by Voltaire · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140622638
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«Candide» is Voltaire's satirical novel, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (176 pages, in English).
Young Candide, educated in the optimism of the philosopher Pangloss, travels the world convinced that everything happens for the best. The wars, injustices and catastrophes he witnesses confront him with human cruelty and ultimately make him question that doctrine, leading to the famous maxim of cultivating one's own garden.
Original title: Candide, ou l'Optimisme. Work originally published in 1759; this edition belongs to the Penguin Popular Classics collection.
Aimed at readers of Enlightenment classics and philosophical satire.
François-Marie Arouet, known by his pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit and his criticism of Christianity and of slavery, Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state.
