by Voltaire · Wordsworth Editions Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781853260636
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«Candide» is Voltaire's satirical novel published by Wordsworth Editions Ltd in paperback (128 pages, in English).
Candide, a naive young man, is expelled from the baron's castle for his love of Cunegonde and embarks on a journey full of misfortunes: wars, shipwrecks, the Inquisition and all kinds of calamities. Voltaire turns them into a satire of philosophical optimism and the idea of the «best of all possible worlds», with irony aimed at religion and power.
This 1993 English edition belongs to the Wordsworth Classics collection and includes the complete text. The work was originally published in French in 1759 under the title «Candide, ou l'Optimisme».
For those seeking a classic of the Enlightenment with humour and philosophical depth, as well as for those discovering it as school reading.
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.
