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Candide and Other Works
Af: Voltaire
Engelsk Paperback
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Af: Voltaire
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With an Introduction and Notes by James Fowler, Senior Lecturer in French, University of Kent
 
Candide (1759) is a bright, colourful literary firework display of a novella. With sparkling wit and biting humour, Voltaire hits several targets with fierce and comic satire: organised religion, the overweening pride of aristocrats, merchants'' greed, colonial ambition and the hopeless complacency of Leibnizian philosophy that believes ''all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds''. Through this rites of passage story, with his central character, Candide, a naïve and impressionable young man, Voltaire attacks the social ills of his day, which remarkably remain as pertinent now as ever.

Zadig is a tale of love and detection. Edgar Allan Poe was inspired by this story when he created C. Auguste Dupin in ''The Murders in the Rue Morgue'', a story which established the modern detective fiction genre. The Ingenu recounts how a young man raised by Huron Indians discover the ways of Europe.  Nanine is a sharp three act comedy concerned with marital dilemmas. In all these works Voltaire manages to combine humour with trenchant satire in a highly entertaining fashion.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
368
ISBN-13:
9781840227307
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1840227303
Udg. Dato:
15 jun 2014
Længde:
19mm
Bredde:
129mm
Højde:
200mm
Forlag:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Oplagsdato:
15 jun 2014
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