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Title: Candide and Other Stories (OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS) by Roger Pearson, Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire ISBN: 0-19-283426-6 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: June, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The genius was also a world class author!
Comment: A great selection of stories where Voltaire shows off his literary style and espouses his philosophy on different topics.
He is a great story teller and has a great sense of humour too.
Rating: 5
Summary: used in my own book, for comedic purposes, a classic must
Comment: In all my research for my comedy, "A Visit From Voltaire," (amazon.co.uk) this was the obvious first source, BUT I have to add that I only understood it best after knowing what role it played in the political mayhem of his life fighting "infame," and only after I knew more about his social/irreligious context, did I really "get" what he was doing in Candide in order to incorporate it into my fantasy of his 21st century return. I'd send light readers to "Voltaire in Love," and wannabe scholars to the Portable Voltaire and whatever basic biographic texts they can find--my shelf is full of out-of-print biographies and eventually I lived at the Musee Voltaire in Geneva to really befriend him--the result was a book and great happiness in knowing this brilliant, mercurial mind!
Dinah Lee Küng
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best of All Possible Worlds?
Comment: In a list of my six favorite books for "The Week" magazine, I wrote: "Whenever all seems lost, I pick up this 1759 tale of eternally optimistic yet misfortune-prone Candide's efforts to reunite with his true love. His ability to persevere in the face of mind-numbing self-delusion is awesome."
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Title: The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli ISBN: 0553212788 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 August, 1984 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
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Title: The Portable Voltaire by Fran-Cois Maria Arouet De Voltaire, Ray Voltaire, Francois-Marie De Voltaire, Ben R. Redman ISBN: 0140150412 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: July, 1977 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Rights of Man and Common Sense by Thomas Paine ISBN: 0679433147 Publisher: Everyman's Library Pub. Date: 04 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Social Contract and The Discourses by JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU ISBN: 0679423028 Publisher: Everyman's Library Pub. Date: 26 October, 1993 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Republic by Plato ISBN: 0486411214 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 18 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $2.50 |
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