Candide : or, Optimism
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London ; Penguin Books, [1947].
ISBN
0140440046, 9780140440041
Lexile measure
1010L
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Published
London ; Penguin Books, [1947].
Format
Book
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144 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
ISBN
0140440046, 9780140440041
Lexile measure
1010

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It was the indifferent shrug and callous inertia that this 'optimism' concealed which so angered Voltaire, who found the 'all for the best' approach a patently inadequate response to suffering, to natural disasters - such as the recent earthquakes in Lima and Lisbon - not to mention the questions of illness and man-made war. Moreover, as the rebel whose satiric genius had earned him not only international acclaim, but two stays in the Bastille, flogging and exile, Voltaire knew personally what suffering involved. In Candide he whisks his young hero and friends through a ludicrous variety of tortures, tragedies and reversals of fortune, in the company of Pangloss, a 'metaphysico-theologo-cosmolo-nigologist' of unflinching optimism. The result is one of the glories of eighteenth-century satire.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Voltaire., & Butt, J. (1947). Candide: or, Optimism . Penguin Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Voltaire, 1694-1778 and John Butt. 1947. Candide: Or, Optimism. Penguin Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Voltaire, 1694-1778 and John Butt. Candide: Or, Optimism Penguin Books, 1947.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Voltaire, and John Butt. Candide: Or, Optimism Penguin Books, 1947.

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