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Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector’s Library are books to love and treasure. This edition features an introduction by Dr Marine Ganofsky.
Candide, or the Optimist is Voltaire’s hilarious and deeply scathing satire on the Age of Enlightenment.
Young nobleman Candide lives a sheltered and comfortable life under the tutorship of the ridiculous Dr Pangloss who espouses the prevailing 18th century philosophy of Optimism. Following an indiscretion, Candide is cast out into the world which according to Pangloss is ‘the best of all possible worlds’. But this is not so – Candide and his companions encounter nothing but ludicrous calamities in their madcap travels around the world – war crimes, earthquakes, inquisitions and chain gangs – all based with horrible closeness on real events of the 18th century.
Voltaire’s searing critique of church, state and human nature was a bestseller from the moment it was published.
Editore : Macmillan Collectors Library; Unabridged edizione (1 ottobre 2020)
Lingua : Inglese
Copertina rigida : 143 pagine
ISBN-10 : 1529021081
ISBN-13 : 978-1529021080
Peso articolo : 1,05 Kilograms
Dimensioni : 10.03 x 1.52 x 15.62 cm
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I heard this book in an audiobook and I definitely wanted to have it physically and this book is just perfect. Itâs so cute. I love the pages and how small it is easy to just keep around would definitely recommend for a book collector
Brilliant illustrations with this classic story. Thank you.
The dust jacket is very pretty with a baroque painting and the actual cover itself is nicely embroided with leaf patterns. The gold pages and the bookmark are very good touches too.
This book is gorgeous, jacket and cover. I didn’t realize how small the book is but I don’t mind. It’s cute.
Teeny weeny little book that you need a magnifying glass to read. I gave it away.