Candide and Other Stories - (Everyman's Library Classics) by Voltaire (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p> </p><p><i>Candide</i> is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in the best of all possible worlds. On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the philosophical optimism that proclaims that all disaster and human suffering is part of a benevolent cosmic plan. Fast, funny, often outrageous, the French philosopher's immortal narrative takes Candide around the world to discover that -- contrary to the teachings of his distinguished tutor Dr. Pangloss -- all is not always for the best. Alive with wit, brilliance, and graceful storytelling, <i>Candide</i> has become Voltaire's most celebrated work. <p/></p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>The spirit of satire flourished during the Enlightenment as in no other period, and the crowning achievement of that caustic, brilliantly learned age was Voltaire's Candide, published in 1759, at the height of its author's enormous European fame. Following the worldwide encounters - with shipwrecks, earthquakes, pestilence, and human insanity - of its hero and his incomparably absurd tutor, Dr. Pangloss, Candide is the most entertaining of all philosophical novels and the most philosophical of entertainments.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"When we observe such things as the recrudescence of fundamentalism in the United States, the horrors of religious fanaticism in the Middle East, the appalling danger which the stubbornness of political intolerance presents to the whole world, we must surely conclude that we can still profit by the example of lucidity, the acumen, the intellectual honesty and the moral courage of Voltaire."<br><b>--A. J. Ayer</b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) (1694--1778) was one of the key thinkers of the European Enlightenment. Of his many works, <i>Candide</i>remains the most popular.
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