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Genre/Form: | Satire Picaresque literature Fictional Work Fiction Romans Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Voltaire, 1694-1778. Candide, or Optimism. New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 2005 (OCoLC)654642549 |
Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Voltaire; Theo Cuffe |
ISBN: | 0143039423 9780143039426 9780140455106 0140455108 9780679417460 067941746X 0451528093 9780451528094 |
OCLC Number: | 1001902535 |
Notes: | Col. map on cover flap. |
Description: | xxxvii, 155 pages : maps ; 22 cm. |
Contents: | Candide, or optimism -- The alternative version of the opening of chapter 22 -- Voltaire's poem on The Lisbon disaster -- Entries from Voltaire's philosophical dictionary. |
Series Title: | Penguin classics deluxe edition. |
Other Titles: | Candide. Candide Optimism |
Responsibility: | Voltaire ; translated and edited by Theo Cuffe ; with an introduction by Michael Wood. |
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