Candide is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply "optimism") by his mentor, Professor Pangloss. Voltaire describes...
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"C'est un voyage, une fiction ironique sur les désordres du monde, une réflexion souriante sur le bien et le mal, un roman d’apprentissage et, bien sűr, une satire de la société...
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) "Candide" is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in...
Candide has been delighting readers since 1759 with its satiric wit, provocations and warnings...
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Zadig is a philosopher in ancient Babylonia. Voltaire did not attempt historical accuracy with this book. Many of the problems Zadig faces are thinly disguised references to social...
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In this little-known work by Voltaire (1694-1778)now available in English for the first time the famous French philosophe and satirist presents a wide-ranging and acerbic survey of...
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Beginning in 1689, Jean Meslier worked for around forty years as the priest of the small town of Etripigny, France. When he died, his parishioners were astonished to find his last testament...
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The French author known as Voltaire was born in 1694 to a noble family in the province of Poitou. Voltaire was a writer of the Enlightenment movement and was well known in his own time...
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Series of short, radical essays analysing the conventions of thought in 18th century France...
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Candide est un conte philosophique écrit par Voltaire en 1759. L'histoire suit Candide, un jeune homme optimiste, qui vit de nombreuses aventures à travers le monde après avoir...
Rendu célèbre par le film "Sex and the City", où il apparaît comme livre de chevet de Carrie Bradshaw, ce recueil est une fenêtre ouverte sur l'intimité des figures majeures de...
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One of the most important essays on religious tolerance and freedom of thought, a French bestseller in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks§§In 1762 Jean Calas, a merchant from Toulouse,...
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Candide, or the Optimist is Voltaire's hilarious and deeply scathing satire on the Age of Enlightenment. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound,...
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'What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?' Voltaire's...
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Why do bad things happen to good people? Well, why not? The handsome young Candide, having been taught that this is the best of all possible worlds, quickly learns that is far from...
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Dans cette Å"uvre, Voltaire aborde l'histoire de l'Europe avant Charlemagne jusqu'a l'aube du siecle de Louis XIV, en evoquant egalement celle des colonies et de...
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Cette pi ce se d roule pendant le si ge de la Mecque par Mahomet en 630. Voltaire ne pr tendit jamais faire oeuvre d'historien; il se savait dramaturge. Au coeur de sa pi ce, l'affrontement...
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...
Cette oeuvre est inspir e d'un conte persan intitul Voyages et aventures des trois princes de Serendip. Cependant Zadig va plus loin que les trois princes de Serendip en ce sens...
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N le 21 novembre 1694Paris o il est mort le 30 mai 1778, est un crivain et philosophe qui a marqu le xviiie si cle et qui occupe une place particuli re dans la m moire collective...
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They...
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Micromegas is a six-hundred-and-fifty-year-old, thirty-nine-kilometre-high giant from the planet Sirius who can speak a thousand languages and has been expelled from his homeland for...
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This edition of Candide is here presented in a brand-new translation which contains extra material with pictures and a section on Voltaire's life and work...
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Inspired by Voltaire's two-year stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightment. Exactly contemporary with Gulliver's Travels and The Beggar's...
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Candide est un récit qui incite ŕ la réflexion tout en apportant un divertissement. Dans cet ouvrage : des dossiers culturels | une glossaire | des activités ludiques trčs variées Thčmes...
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