by Voltaire · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140440041
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«Candide» is Voltaire's satirical novel, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (144 pages, in English).
Young Candide, educated by the optimist Pangloss, believes everything happens for the best. After being expelled from his castle, he travels through Europe and America and suffers wars, shipwrecks and abuses that contradict that idea. Voltaire satirizes the optimistic philosophy, religion and society of his time.
Work originally published in 1759. This edition includes translation and introduction by John Everett Butt.
For those interested in eighteenth-century French literature and philosophical satire.
François-Marie Arouet, known by his pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit and his criticism of Christianity and of slavery, Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state.
