by Voltaire · Pocket - educabooks · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782266159227
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«Candide» is Voltaire's philosophical novel, published by Pocket - educabooks in paperback (168 pages, in French).
Candide lives in a castle trusting the doctrine of Pangloss, for whom everything happens in the best of all possible worlds. After being expelled, he travels through a world of wars, fanaticism and disasters that disproves that philosophy. Voltaire turns the journey into a satire of optimism and of the institutions of his time.
Work originally published in 1759; this Pocket edition, released in 2007, offers the complete text with a preface by Mathilde Paris.
Suitable for students of French and for those seeking a brief classic of eighteenth-century 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.
