This elegant hardback edition presents Voltaire's classic novel, Candide, featuring luxurious gold cover embossing and gilded page edges. Candide is a young man living a paradisaical life, mentored by a tutor, Professor Pangloss. When Candide falls... Zobraziť viac
With its vibrant new translation, perceptive introduction, and witty packaging, this new edition of Voltaires masterpiece belongs in the hands of every reader pondering our assumptions about human behavior and our place in the world... Zobraziť viac
Candide, or the Optimist is Voltaire's hilarious and deeply scathing satire on the Age of Enlightenment. This classic of French literature has been a bestseller for over two hundred years... Zobraziť viac
Candide is the most famous of Voltaire`s `philosophical tales`, in which he combined witty improbabilities with the sanest of good sense. This edition includes four other prose tales - Micromegas, Zadig, The Ingnu, and The White Bull - and a verse tale... Zobraziť viac
A new translation of Voltaire's Treatise on Toleration, one of the most important essays on religious tolerance and freedom of thought A powerful, impassioned case for the values of freedom of conscience and religious tolerance,Treatise on Toleration was Zobraziť viac
Wordsworth Editions: With an Introduction and Notes by James Fowler, Senior Lecturer in French, University of Kent ... Zobraziť viac
Set in the exotic East, this is a darker tale in which an American Indian records his impressions of France... Zobraziť viac
When his love for the Baron's daughter is discovered, Candide is cast out to make his own way in the world. And so he and his companions begin a breathless tour of Europe, South America and Asia, as an outrageous series of disasters befall them... Zobraziť viac
A flamboyant and controversial personality of enormous wit and intelligence, Voltaire remains one of the most influential figures of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment... Zobraziť viac
