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Genre/Form: | Fiction Translations Translations into English Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Named Person: | Voltaire; Voltaire |
Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Voltaire; Theo Cuffe |
ISBN: | 9780140455106 0140455108 |
OCLC Number: | 1002303672 |
Notes: | Translation of: Candide. |
Description: | xxxvii, 155 pages ; 20 cm |
Series Title: | Penguin classics. |
Other Titles: | Candide. Candide Optimism |
Responsibility: | Voltaire ; translated and edited by Theo Cuffe ; with an introduction by Michael Wood. |
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