Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Cathedral Classics)

by Francois Voltaire

Michael Wood (Introduction), Theo Cuffe (Translator), and Chris Ware (Illustrator)

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With its vibrant new translation, perceptive introduction, and witty packaging, this new edition of Voltaire’s masterpiece belongs in the hands of every reader pondering our assumptions about human behavior and our place in the world. Candide tells of the hilarious adventures of the naïve Candide, who doggedly believes that “all is for the best” even when faced with injustice, suffering, and despair. Controversial and entertaining, Candide is a book that is vitally relevant today in our world pervaded by—as Candide would say—“the mania for insisting that all is well when all is by no means well.”
  • ISBN10 0143039423
  • ISBN13 9780143039426
  • Publish Date 25 October 2005
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
  • Imprint Penguin Classics