Candide By Voltaire

Name: Candide By Voltaire
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ISBN: 9780312148546

ISBN-10: 0312148542

ISBN-13: 9780312148546

Edition: 1999

Authors: Voltaire, Daniel Gordon, Francois Voltaire, Voltaire

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In this new translation of Voltaire's best-known work, distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the irreverent spirit of "Candide "and" "renders the novel in clear, vivacious English. Stylistically superior to all predecessors, Raffel's version now stands as the translation of choice for twenty-first-century readers. "[A] fine new translation."--Adam Gopnik, "New Yorker" "Burton Raffel's excellent translations of a wide variety of texts are rightly admired, and so will this one be. Thanks be, he possesses the wit necessary to take us on and along the satirical road of Voltaire's "Candide.""--Mary Ann Caws, editor of "The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry"

Book details

List price: $20.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Publication date: 9/15/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 138
Size: 5.89" wide x 8.17" long x 0.36" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Foreword


Preface



Introduction: The Paradoxes of Voltaire


The Duality of Voltaire


Voltaire and the Old Regime


Absolute Monarchy


Nobility


Religion


Candide


The Unhappy Voltaire


Voltaire against Leibniz


Ridicule, Sex, Irony


Note on Voltaire's Vocabulary and the Present Translation


Illustrations



Candide, or Optimism



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Voltaire, Letter to Jean-Robert Tronchin, November 24, 1755


Omer Joly de Fleury, Letter to Henry-Lï¿½onard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin, February 24, 1759


Voltaire, Letter to Gabriel and Philibert Cramer, February 25, 1759


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Appendices


A Voltaire Chronology (1694-1791)


Questions for Consideration


Selected Bibliography


Index of Key Concepts