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Candide, or The Optimist
Af: Voltaire
Engelsk Hardback
Candide, or The Optimist
Af: Voltaire
Engelsk Hardback

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Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector''s Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector''s Library are books to love and treasure. This edition features an introduction by Dr Marine Ganofsky.

Candide, or the Optimist is Voltaire’s hilarious and deeply scathing satire on the Age of Enlightenment.

Young nobleman Candide lives a sheltered and comfortable life under the tutorship of the ridiculous Dr Pangloss who espouses the prevailing 18th century philosophy of Optimism. Following an indiscretion, Candide is cast out into the world which according to Pangloss is ‘the best of all possible worlds’. But this is not so – Candide and his companions encounter nothing but ludicrous calamities in their madcap travels around the world – war crimes, earthquakes, inquisitions and chain gangs - all based with horrible closeness on real events of the 18th century.

Voltaire’s searing critique of church, state and human nature was a bestseller from the moment it was published.





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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
176
ISBN-13:
9781529021080
Indbinding:
Hardback
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ISBN-10:
1529021081
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Udg. Dato:
1 okt 2020
Længde:
17mm
Bredde:
156mm
Højde:
102mm
Forlag:
Pan Macmillan
Oplagsdato:
1 okt 2020
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