Candid
or, all for the best. Translated from the French of M. de Voltaire.
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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Candid: or, all for the best. Translated from the French of M. de Voltaire.
1759, printed for J. Nourse
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- The second edition, carefully revised and corrected.
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With a half-title.
A second part, not by Voltaire, is entered under C. C. F. Thorel de Campigneulles.
Microfilm. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1986. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 6464, no. 01).
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