Candide and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics)
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Candide, the wittiest and best-loved book of a genius who is still unequaled in his ability to spin art out of philosophy, became a huge bestseller in Europe after it was published in 1759. Voltaire, skeptical of the systems of philosophy that were floated about to explain the workings of the world, used this satirical story about the optimist Candide and his friend Dr. Pangloss to interrogate and discredit the philosophies and approach more closely the truth about human life, suffering, and happiness in the real world. Now, the short novel Candide is considered one of the most important texts of the enlightenment.
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?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.?
?A. J. Ayer
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Candide and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics)
Candide and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics),Voltaire,Roger Pearson,Oxford University Press, USA,0192834266,1694-1778,Classics,Fiction,French Novel And Short Story,Literary,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature: Classics,Short Stories (single author),Translations into English,Voltaire,,16th to 18th century fiction,19th century fiction,Fiction / Literary,French,Literature/English | World Literature | France,Other prose: 19th century
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