Candide and other stories

Author(s)

• Voltaire
• Pearson, Roger

Bibliographic Information

Candide and other stories

Voltaire ; translated from the French, with an introduction and notes, by Roger Pearson

（Everyman's library, 130）

David Campbell , Distributed by Random House, 1992

Note

Originally published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1990

Translated from the French

Bibliography: p. xxxix

Contents of Works

• Micromegas
• Zadig
• The ingenu
• The white ball

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA18804180
• ISBN:
  • 1857151305
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: fre
• Place of Publication: London,London
• Pages/Volumes: lviii, 307 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC8 : 953
  • DC20 : 843.5
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA19122415