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" Candide and other stories / "
Voltaire ; translated from the French with an introduction and notes by Roger Pearson.
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BL
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1029971
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b784341
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Short stories.English
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| Main Entry
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Voltaire,1694-1778.
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Candide and other stories /\ Voltaire ; translated from the French with an introduction and notes by Roger Pearson.
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New York :: Knopf :: Distributed by Random House,, 1992.
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Everyman's library
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lviii, 307 pages ;; 21 cm
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067941746X
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: 9780679417460
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Includes bibliographical references (page xxxix).
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| Abstract
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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.
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Short stories, French-- 18th century, Translations into English.
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Short stories.
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Short stories, French.
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| Dewey Classification
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843/.5
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PQ2082.C3E5 1992
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