Candide And Other Stories
Douban
ISBN: 9781857151305
author:
Voltaire
translator:
Pearson, Roger
publishing house:
Everyman
publication date: 1992
-10
price: GBP 10.99
number of pages: 310
Voltaire Pearson, Roger
overview
The spirit of satire flourished during the Enlightenment, and its crowning achievement was Voltaire's "Candide". It follows the worldwide encounters - with shipwrecks, earthquakes, pestilence and human insanity - of its hero and his absurd tutor, Dr Pangloss.