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Candide and Other Works (Paperback, UK ed.)
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Candide and Other Works (Paperback, UK ed.)
Series: Wordsworth Classics
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With an Introduction and Notes by James Fowler, Senior Lecturer in
French, University of Kent Candide (1759) is a bright, colourful
literary firework display of a novella. With sparkling wit and
biting humour, Voltaire hits several targets with fierce and comic
satire: organised religion, the overweening pride of aristocrats,
merchants' greed, colonial ambition and the hopeless complacency of
Leibnizian philosophy that believes 'all is for the best in the
best of all possible worlds'. Through this rites of passage story,
with his central character, Candide, a naive and impressionable
young man, Voltaire attacks the social ills of his day, which
remarkably remain as pertinent now as ever. Zadig is a tale of love
and detection. Edgar Allan Poe was inspired by this story when he
created C. Auguste Dupin in 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', a
story which established the modern detective fiction genre. The
Ingenu recounts how a young man raised by Huron Indians discover
the ways of Europe. Nanine is a sharp three act comedy concerned
with marital dilemmas. In all these works Voltaire manages to
combine humour with trenchant satire in a highly entertaining
fashion.
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