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Genre/Form: | Fictional Work Criticism, interpretation, etc Novels Satirical literature Romans |
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Named Person: | Voltaire; Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire |
Material Type: | Fiction, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Voltaire; Robert M Adams |
ISBN: | 0393960587 9780393960587 |
OCLC Number: | 21483775 |
Description: | viii, 208, [1] pages ; 22 cm. |
Contents: | Text of Candide, or Optimism -- "Candide" and Mademoiselle "Cunegonde": Note on their names -- Candide -- Backgrounds -- Summary: Intellectual backgrounds / Robert M. Adams -- Well, everything is well -- Voltaire at Les Delices and at Ferney / Gustave Lanson -- [Gestation: Candide assembling itself] / Haydn Mason -- English visitors to Ferney: Sampling -- August 1763 -- Edward Gibbon -- December 1764 -- James Boswell -- August 1771 -- Rev. Norton Nicholls -- July 1770 -- Charles Burney -- (Eighth Duke of Hamilton), July 1772 -- John Moore -- Douglas Hamilton -- Criticism: Conte defined / Robert M. Adams -- Checklist of the Contes of Voltaire, and related writings -- [Tone, pace, insinuation] / Erich Auerbach -- [Voltaire and Candide] / I.O. Wade -- Quality of Candide / J.G. Weightman -- [Voltaire's escape from pascal] / Ernst Cassirer -- Getting the point / Robert M. Adams -- Climate of controversy -- Voltaire's Faith -- Voltaire: Letter on the subject of candide -- [What did Voltaire mean by l'Infame?] / Peter Gay -- Andre Delattre -- Voltaire's Greatness -- Joseph de Maistre -- Victor Hugo -- Edmond and Jules Goncourt -- Voltaire's Coherence -- Emile Faguet -- Daniel Mornet -- Raymond Naves -- Voltaire's Humanity -- Madame de Stael -- Gustave Lanson -- Voltaire's Style -- Hippolyte Taine -- John Morley -- Short Takes: Anatole France -- Gustave Flaubert -- George Saintsbury -- Andre Bellessort -- Emile Faguet -- Frederick the Great -- S.G. Tallentyre -- Peter Gay -- Stendhal -- [Pangloss's song] -- Richard Wilbur -- Thomas Jefferson -- Jacques Van Den Heuvel -- Andre Delattre -- Hugo Friedrich -- Voltaire's apotheosis -- Paul Valery. |
Series Title: | Norton critical edition. |
Other Titles: | Candide. Optimism |
Responsibility: | Voltaire ; translated and edited by Robert M. Adams. |
Abstract:
Robert M. Adams's superlative revised translation of Candide provides the basis for this widely adopted Norton Critical Edition.
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