Candide, or, Optimism
translated from the German of Dr. Ralph with additions found in the doctor's pocket when he died, at Minden, in the year of our Lord 1759
By Voltaire, William Fleming, Philip Littell and Jack Davenport
"Candide, or, Optimism" was published by Yale University Press in 2005 - New Haven, it has 132 pages and the language of the book is English.
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- Title: Candide, or, Optimism
- Authors: VoltaireWilliam FlemingPhilip LittellJack Davenport
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 132
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Publish Date: 2005
- Publish Location: New Haven
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- People: Lester G. Crocker - Voltaire (1694-1778)
- Places: Great Britain - France
- Time: 18th century
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: xxix, 132 p. ;
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL17625585M - OL100672W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 56613745
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 2004022916
- ISBN-13: 9780300106558 - 9780300127782
- ISBN-10: 0300106556
- All ISBNs: 0300106556 - 9780300106558 - 9780300127782
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"Candide, or, Optimism" Table Of Contents:
- 1- How Candide was raised in a noble mansion, and how he was driven
- 2- What happened to Candide among the Bulgars
- 3- How Candide saved himself from the Bulgars, and what became of him
- 4- How Candide met his old philosophy teacher, Doctor Pangloss, and what had happened to him
- 5- Tempest, shipwreck, earthquake, and what happened to Doctor Pangloss, Candide, and Jacques the Anabaptist
- 6- How they had a beautiful auto-da-fé in order to put an end to the earthquake, and how Candide was flogged
- 7- How an old woman took care of Candide and how he got back his beloved
- 8- Cunégonde's story
- 9- What happened to Cunégonde, to Candide, to the Grand Inquisitor, and to a Jew
- 10- In what difficulty Candide, Cunégonde, and the old woman reached Cadiz, and how they boarded a ship
- 11- The old woman's story
- 12- More about the old woman's misfortunes
- 13- How Candide was forced to leave lovely Cunégonde and the old woman
- 14- How Candide and Cacambo were greeted by the Jesuits of Paraguay
- 15- How Candide killed his dear Cunégonde's brother
- 16- What happened to the two travelers with two girls, two monkeys, and the savages known as Oreillons
- 17- Arrival of Candide and his valet in the land of Eldorado, and what they saw there
- 18- What they saw in Eldorado
- 19- How they got to Surinam, and how Candide came to know Martin
- 20- What happened at sea to Candide and Martin
- 21- Candide and Martin approach the French coast and argue
- 22- What happened to Candide and Martin in France
- 23- Candide and Martin reach the British coast, and what they see there
- 24- Paquette and Friar Giroflée
- 25- Visit to Lord Pococuranté, a nobleman of Venice
- 26- A dinner that Candide and Martin shared with six foreigners, and who they were
- 27- Candide's journey to Constantinople
- 28- What happened to Candide, Cunégonde, Pangloss, Martin, etc.
- 29- How Candide found Cunégonde and the old woman.
"Candide, or, Optimism" Description:
The Open Library:
Candide is about a man who believes in the philosophy that: "what happens, happens for the best in the end." that was taught to him by his personal philosopher Dr. Panlosss. Candide goes through many, many trials and everyone he meets has had something terrible happen to them. He searches the world over for his love Cundgonde. And in the end finds that the simplest things in life: love, friends, and health are all that matters.
Open Data:
In this new translation of Voltaire’s Candide, distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the French novel’s irreverent spirit and offers a vivid, contemporary version of the 250-year-old text. Raffel casts the novel in an English idiom that--had Voltaire been a twenty-first-century American--he might himself have employed. The translation is immediate and unencumbered, and for the first time makes Voltaire the satirist a wicked pleasure for English-speaking readers.Candide recounts the fantastically improbable travels, adventures, and misfortunes of the young Candide, his beloved Cunégonde, and his devoutly optimistic tutor, Pangloss. Endowed at the start with good fortune and every prospect for happiness and success, the characters nevertheless encounter every conceivable misfortune. Voltaire’s philosophical tale, in part an ironic attack on the optimistic thinking of such figures as G. W. Leibniz and Alexander Pope, has proved enormously influential over the years. In a general introduction to this volume, historian Johnson Kent Wright places Candide in the contexts of Voltaire’s life and work and the Age of Enlightenment
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