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Title: Candide by Voltaire, Francois-Marie Arouet ISBN: 0-486-26689-3 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: February, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.22 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Philiosophe Shenanigans
Comment: Perhaps the most amusingly intelligent Frenchman in history, Voltaire's masterpiece satirizes everything from politics to Liebniz to the Pope. Short, bitter, and hilarious, 'Candide' may not sound as controversial as it once did. Surprisingly, however, it holds up quite well after over two centuries. Intolerance and ignorance are still widespread, and the first step to solving the problem is to see it. Perhaps more people would realize our condition if Voltaire were as publicized as during his lifetime.
Even if you where to ignore the social statement, some might get a kick out of the wacky storyline and idiotic characters. Plus, its length makes it a quick read (which is fortunate, as one may want to go over it a few times after laughing hysterically to get the full point).
Rating: 5
Summary: Candide is to Voltaire, as Gulliver is to Twain.
Comment: "Candide" was really Voltaire's 18th Century Lenny Bruce. It is a very strong social satire, at least for that time. Even the name Dr.Pangloss is a pun in French/Greek for 'a whitewash over the world'. It is an insult to Voltaire to sell his work so cheap. Read it and learn. R.Jones (LLB)
Rating: 5
Summary: Action-packed, hilarious, vulgar ... brilliant!
Comment: Francois-Marie Arouet (pen name Voltaire) was one of the greatest thinkers of 18th-century Europe. In his brief novella CANDIDE -- which takes less than two hours to read -- he explains the purpose of human existence, with brilliant observations and witty humor. Voltaire offers up numerous philosophies devised by the greatest minds in history, none of which makes the remotest sense in the crazy, multi-continent, tragedy-ridden misadventures of Candide, his tutor Pangloss, his beloved Cunegonde, and the host of remarkable characters they meet.
To call this novella episodic is an understatement. There is more plot in some paragraphs of CANDIDE than there is in most thousand-page epics. We hear countless tales of injustice, swindle, rape, torture, famine, murder, plague, earthquake, and war, but Voltaire presents them in such rapid-fire understatement that the tragedies become hilarious. (Most notable is the tale of the Old Lady losing half of her backside in a seige.) It is only after Candide and his band of comrades lose vast fortunes multiple times that they happen across a lifestyle that offers a moderate amount of enduring satisfaction...
...but I will not tell you how Voltaire says that you can find happiness and fulfillment. Next time you have a rainy afternoon with nothing to do, let Voltaire explain it himself.
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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: Candide (Cliffs Notes) by Francois Marie Arouet, James K. Lowers ISBN: 0822002833 Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: March, 1965 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad ISBN: 0486264645 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: August, 1990 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: Utopia by Sir Thomas More ISBN: 0486295834 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka ISBN: 0486290301 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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