Candide
- Hardcover
- New York: The Modern Library, 1940
New York: The Modern Library, 1940. Hardcover. Good/good. Hardcover. 7 1/4" X 5". xiii, 236pp. Wear to unclipped dust jacket with rubbing, toning, creasing, and chipping to covers, corners, and edges. Sunning to spine of jacket. Bound in blue cloth over boards with spine and front cover stamped in red and gilt. Bumps to corners and extremities of boards. Previous owner's stamp to title page. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
A flamboyant and controversial personality of enormous wit and intelligence, Voltaire remains one of the most influential figures of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Candide, his masterpiece, is a brilliant satire of the theory that our world is "the best of all possible worlds." The book traces the picaresque adventures of the guileless Candide, who is forced into the army, flogged, shipwrecked, betrayed, robbed, separated from his beloved Cunegonde, tortured by the Inquisition, et cetera, all without losing his resilience and will to live and pursue a happy life.(Publisher).
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
A flamboyant and controversial personality of enormous wit and intelligence, Voltaire remains one of the most influential figures of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Candide, his masterpiece, is a brilliant satire of the theory that our world is "the best of all possible worlds." The book traces the picaresque adventures of the guileless Candide, who is forced into the army, flogged, shipwrecked, betrayed, robbed, separated from his beloved Cunegonde, tortured by the Inquisition, et cetera, all without losing his resilience and will to live and pursue a happy life.(Publisher).
Details
Title
Candide
Author
Voltaire; Littell, Philip (Intro.)
Binding
Hardcover
Condition
Good
Publisher
The Modern Library: New York
Date
1940