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Candide

2016-04-02 Fiction
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Release : 2016-04-02
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Book Synopsis Candide by : Voltaire Voltaire

Download or read book Candide written by Voltaire Voltaire. This book was released on 2016-04-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Candide by Voltaire from Coterie Classics All Coterie Classics have been formatted for ereaders and devices and include a bonus link to the free audio book. “Do you believe,' said Candide, 'that men have always massacred each other as they do to-day, that they have always been liars, cheats, traitors, ingrates, brigands, idiots, thieves, scoundrels, gluttons, drunkards, misers, envious, ambitious, bloody-minded, calumniators, debauchees, fanatics, hypocrites, and fools?' Do you believe,' said Martin, 'that hawks have always eaten pigeons when they have found them?” ― Voltaire, Candide Candide is a young man who is raised in wealth to be an optimist but when he is forced to make his own way in the world, his assumptions and outlook are challenged.

Candide

2003-08-26 Fiction
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Release : 2003-08-26
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Book Synopsis Candide by : Voltaire

Download or read book Candide written by Voltaire. This book was released on 2003-08-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the philosophical optimism that proclaims that all disaster and human suffering is part of a benevolent cosmic plan. Fast, funny, often outrageous, the French philosopher's immortal narrative takes Candide around the world to discover that -- contrary to the teachings of his distringuished tutor Dr. Pangloss -- all is not always for the best. Alive with wit, brilliance, and graceful storytelling, Candide has become Voltaire's most celebrated work.

The Rural Life

2007-09-03 Nature
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Release : 2007-09-03
Genre : Nature
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Book Synopsis The Rural Life by : Verlyn Klinkenborg

Download or read book The Rural Life written by Verlyn Klinkenborg. This book was released on 2007-09-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hugely admired author of "The Last Fine Time" preserves and makes new the sights, smells, sounds, and poetry of country living. Klinkenborg reveals the beauty of the American landscape, not from a scenic overlook, but through a screened-in porch or from the window of a pickup driving down an empty highway in the teeth of an approaching storm.

Candide

1950-06-30 Fiction
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Release : 1950-06-30
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Book Synopsis Candide by : Francois Voltaire

Download or read book Candide written by Francois Voltaire. This book was released on 1950-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds" 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, 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 entailed. In Candide he whisks his young hero and friends through a ludicrous variety of tortures, tragedies, and a reversal of fortune, in the company of Pangloss, a "metaphysico-theologo-comolo-nigologist" of unflinching optimism. The result is one of the glories of eighteenth-century satire. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Candide and Zadig

1966
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Release : 1966
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Book Synopsis Candide and Zadig by : Voltaire

Download or read book Candide and Zadig written by Voltaire. This book was released on 1966. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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