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| #57182 in Books | 1950-06-30 | 1950-06-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.80 x.30 x5.10l,.40 | File Name: 0140440046 | 144 pages
||22 of 22 people found the following review helpful.| Review of the Open Road Media kindle edition of Candide|By Phil (not) in Magnolia|NOTE: Due to difficulties in posting this review, until it is completely updated the full text of the review, with links, can be found in the comments section directly below. I apologize for this but have been having an unusually difficult time in getting this review to post. This note will be|.com |Political satire doesn't age well, but occasionally a diatribe contains enough art and universal mirth to survive long after its timeliness has passed. Candide is such a book. Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Candi
"All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds"
It was the indifferent shrug and callous inertia that this "optimism" concealed which so angered Voltaire, who found the "all for the best" approach a patently inadequate response to suffering, to natural disasters, not to mention the questions of illness and man-made war. Moreover, as the rebel whose satiric genius had earned him not only international acclaim, but two stays in the Bastille, f...
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics) | Voltaire.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
