Candide, or, Optimism
by Voltaire, William Fleming, Philip Littell, and Jack Davenport
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Brought up in the household of a powerful Baron, Candide is an open-minded young man, whose tutor, Pangloss, has instilled in him the belief that 'all is for the best'. But when his love for the Baron's rosy-cheeked daughter is discovered, Candide is cast out to make his own way in the world.
And so he and his various companions begin a breathless tour of Europe, South America and Asia, as an outrageous series of disasters befall them - earthquakes, syphilis, a brush with the Inquisition, murder - sorely testing the young hero's optimism.
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"This edition ... has been composed in Monotype Cochin at the Fanfare Press, London to the design of Francis Meynell. It was printed at the Imprimerie Protat Frères at Mâcon in France on paper especially made at the Rives mills, and the illustrations ... were reproduced by G. Duval and the Imprimerie Beaufumé in Paris."--Colophon.
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