| Edition |
Second edition. |
| Description |
viii, 208, 1 unnumbered page ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
A Norton critical edition
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page [209]). |
| Contents |
Preface to the second edition -- Text of candide, or Optimism -- "Candide" and Mademoiselle "Cunegonde": Note on their names -- Candide -- Backgrounds -- Summary: Intellectual backgrounds / Robert M. Adams -- Well, everything is well -- Voltaire at Les Delices and at Ferney / Gustave Lanson -- [Gestation: Candide assembling itself] / Haydn Mason -- English visitors to Ferney: Sampling -- August 1763 -- Edward Gibbon -- December 1764 -- James Boswell -- August 1771 -- Rev. Norton Nicholls -- July 1770 -- Charles Burney -- (Eighth Duke of Hamilton), July 1772 -- John Moore -- Douglas Hamilton -- Criticism: Conte defined / Robert M. Adams -- Checklist of the Contes of Voltaire, and related writings -- [Tone, pace, insinuation] / Erich Auerbach -- [Voltaire and Candide] / I. O. Wade -- Quality of Candide / J. G. Weightman -- [Voltaire's escape from pascal] / Ernst Cassirer -- Getting the point / Robert M. Adams -- Climate of controversy -- Voltaire's Faith -- Voltaire: Letter on the subject of candide -- [What did Voltaire mean by l'Infame?] / Peter Gay -- Andre Delattre -- Voltaire's Greatness -- Joseph de Maistre -- Victor Hugo -- Edmond and Jules Goncourt -- Voltaire's Coherence -- Emile Faguet -- Daniel Mornet -- Raymond Naves -- Voltaire's Humanity -- Madame de Stael -- Gustave Lanson -- Voltaire's Style -- Hippolyte Taine -- John Morley -- Short Takes: Anatole France -- Gustave Flaubert -- George Saintsbury -- Andre Bellessort -- Emile Faguet -- Frederick the Great -- S. G. Tallentyre -- Peter Gay -- Stendhal -- [Pangloss's song] -- Richard Wilbur -- Thomas Jefferson -- Jacques Van Den Heuvel -- Andre Delattre -- Hugo Friedrich -- Voltaire's apotheosis -- Paul Valery -- Further reading. |
| Subject |
Voltaire, 1694-1778. Candide.
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| Added Author |
Adams, Robert M. (Robert Martin), 1915-1996
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| Added Title |
Candide. English
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Candide. |
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Optimism. |
| ISBN |
0393960587 |
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9780393960587 |
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