| Edition |
3rd ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (163 pages). |
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Voltaire anthology |
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Voltaire anthology.
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BiblioBoard Core module.
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| Note |
Original document: Book. |
| Summary |
One of the most famous satirical works ever published, Candide tackles and pokes fun at religion, military, government, and, most viciously, the idea of optimism. The novella tells the story of Candide who has grown up practicing and believing the ideas of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's optimism theory, which plays a huge role in the satire. After the Seven Years' War and the Lisbon earthquake of 1755, Candide is forced to leave his Eden-like home and explore the world outside. Desperately hoping to find his love, Cunegonde, Candide travels with his servant Cacambo and encounters many interesting characters and strange lands, and finally reaches the conclusion that all people must "cultivate [their] garden." The book was once known as the most widely banned book of all time. Causing great scandal for blasphemy and sedition, the novella was considered very dangerous after its secretive publication in 1759. Today, it is widely-read in schools around the world and is arguably taught more than any other work of French literature in the Western canon. |
| Note |
GMD: electronic resource. |
| Added Author |
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.
Rasselas.
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Morley, Henry, 1822-1894.
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| Added Title |
Candide.
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Optimist.
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