Candide And Other Stories : Voltaire (Everyman's Library CLASSICS)
ISBN: 9781857151305
Author | Voltaire |
Pub Date | 08/10/1992 |
Binding | Hardback |
Pages | 310 |
Country | GBR |
Dewey | 843.5 |
Series | Everyman's Library CLASSICS |
Quick 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.