by Voltaire · OUP Oxford · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780198323723
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«Candide» is Voltaire's satirical novel, published by OUP Oxford in paperback (188 pages, in English).
Candide, a naive young man educated by Doctor Pangloss in the idea that everything happens for the best, is expelled from his home and travels the world amid wars, shipwrecks and deceptions that dismantle that doctrine. Voltaire turns the journey into a fierce satire of the Church, the aristocracy and philosophical optimism.
The work belongs to the Clarendon French Series. The original text, «Candide, ou l'Optimisme», was published in 1759; the present English edition was prepared by J. H. Brumfitt.
Recommended for students of literature and for readers of classics interested in 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.
