Voltaire
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Candide: Or Optimism
$13.00 Add to cartTheo Cuffe’s marvelous translation of Voltaire’s satirical masterpiece
With its vibrant new translation and perceptive introduction this new edition of Voltaire’s masterpiece belongs in the hands of ev… [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Voltaire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0140455108
- Language: English
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Candide: or, Optimism
$19.00 Add to cartIn this splendid new translation of Voltaire’s satiric masterpiece, all the celebrated wit, irony, and trenchant social commentary of one of the great works of the Enlightenment is restored and refres… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Voltaire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0812972015
- Language: English
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Letters Concerning the English Nation
$10.95 Add to cartInspired by Voltaire’s two-year stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightenment. His controversial pronouncements on politics, philosophy, religion, and literature have pla… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Voltaire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 019955532X
- Language: English
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Candide
$5.95 Add to cartCandide 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 … [more below]
- Series: Candide #1
- Author: Voltaire
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0553211668
- Language: English
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Candide: Or Optimism
$13.00 Read more“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” app- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Voltaire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 30 1950
- ISBN10: 0140440046
- Language: English
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Philosophy of History
$19.00 Add to cartHave you ever wondered how different worldviews have shaped history? How dominant religious or political groups have changed the way past events have been interpreted, written, and recorded? The great… [more below]
- Author: Voltaire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: June 19 2007
- ISBN10: 0806530391
- Language: English
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God & Human Beings: First English Translation
$18.00 Add to cartIn this little-known work by Voltaire (1694-1778)-now available in English for the first time- the famous French philosophe and satirist presents a wide-ranging and acerbic survey of religion througho… [more below]
- Author: Voltaire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 183
- Publish Date: May 25 2010
- ISBN10: 1616141786
- Language: English
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Candide and Other Stories
$7.95 Add to cartCandide is the most famous of Voltaire’s “philosophical tales,” in which he combined witty improbabilities with the sanest of good sense. First published in 1759, it was an instant bestseller and has … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Voltaire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535612
- Language: English
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Candide (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
$10.95 Add to cartCandide, Voltaire’s magnum opus, is a matchless satirical take-down of religion, theologians, governments, armies, philosophies, and philosophers. The novella unfolds as the sheltered and privileged
- Author: Voltaire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: January 20, 2022
- ISBN10: 1957240164
- Language: English
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Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$17.00 Add to cartWith its vibrant new translation, perceptive introduction, and witty packaging, this new edition of Voltaire’s masterpiece belongs in the hands of every reader pondering our assumptions about human be… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
- Author: Voltaire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 25 2005
- ISBN10: 0143039423
- Language: English
