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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0140440046
ISBN-13: 9780140440041
May 1990
Publisher: Holt Rinehart & Winston
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Language: English |
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Condition: Very Good
Seller's Comments: Political satire doesn't age well, but occasionally a diatribe contains enough art and universal mirth to survive long after its timeliness has passed. Candide is such a book. Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Candide is steeped in the political and philosophical controversies of the 1750s. But for the general reader, the novel's driving principle is clear enough: the idea (endemic in Voltaire's day) that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and appa
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