| Description |
144 pages |
| Series |
A Norton critical edition |
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Norton critical edition.
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| Contents |
Backgrounds; Summary: The intellectual backgrounds -- Well, everything is well / Voltaire -- Voltaire at :es Delices and at Ferney / Gustave Lanson -- [The "moment" of Candide and the ideas of Voltaire] / Andre Morize -- The principle of plenitude and eighteenth-century optimism / A.O. Lovejoy -- Criticism; [Voltaire: The storyteller's art] / Georges Ascoli -- [Providence, pessimism, and absurdity] / Rene Pomeau -- [Voltaire and Candide] / I.O. Wade -- The quality of Candide / J.G. Weightman -- Candide on work and candide as ousider / Robert M. Adams -- The climate of controversy |
| Summary |
The absurd satire in which Candide's teacher and his philosophy of all being right with the world are refuted |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 193-194 |
| Notes |
Orig. pub. in French |
| Subject |
Voltaire, 1694-1778. Candide.
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| Author |
Adams, Robert M. (Robert Martin), 1915-1996, editor
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| LC no. |
65027469 |
| ISBN |
039305327X |
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9780393053272 |
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