In Candide, Voltaire threw down an audacious challenge to the philosophical views of the Enlightenment to create one of the most glorious satires of the eighteenth century. His eponymous hero is an innocent young man whose tutor, Pangloss, has instilled in him the belief that \"all is for the best\"....

The spirit of satire flourished during the Enlightenment as in no other period and the crowning achievement of that caustic, brilliantly learned age was Voltaire’s Candide, published in 1759, at the height of its author’s enormous European fame....

Candide is an innocent young nobleman who leads an idyllic, sheltered life and has adopted the optimistic mindset promoted by his tutor Dr Pangloss....

Micromegas is a six-hundred-and-fifty-year-old, thirty-nine-kilometre-high giant from the planet Sirius who can speak a thousand languages and has been expelled from his homeland for writing a heretical tract....

Candide, or the Optimist is Voltaire\"s hilarious and deeply scathing satire on the Age of Enlightenment. This classic of French literature has been a bestseller for over two hundred years. Part of the Macmillan Collector\"s Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers....

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them....

\"Private misfortunes make up the general good, so that the more private misfortunes there are, the greater is the general good.\" (Pangloss) After being caught kissing the Baron\"s daughter Cunegonde, gullible ingenue Candide is evicted from the castle where he lives to find himself wandering a world awash with disease, injustice and slaughter....

\\\"On m\"a toujours appele l\"Ingenu [...] parce que je dis toujours naivement ce que je pense, comme je fais tout ce que je veux.\\\" Venu du Canada, debarque sur nos cotes un jeune homme a L\"humeur vagabonde. On s\"emerveille-de son bon sens et de son honnetete, on le reconnait bas-breton par miracle, on le convertit, on le baptise....

Comme disait parfois son precepteur Pangloss, si Candide n\"avait pas ete chasse d\"un beau chateau a grands coups de pied au derriere pour l\"amour de mademoiselle Cunegonde, il ne serait pas la, dans sa petite metairie pleine d\"orangers, a manger des pistaches et a cultiver son jardin....

Эта книга — репринт оригинального издания (издательство "chez Guillaume Mayer", 1741 год), созданный на основе электронной копии высокого разрешения, которую очистили и обработали вручную, сохранив структуру и орфографию оригинального издания....

Эта книга — репринт оригинального издания (издательство "S. Hirzel", 1908 год), созданный на основе электронной копии высокого разрешения, которую очистили и обработали вручную, сохранив структуру и орфографию оригинального издания....