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Candide, or, Optimism : a fresh translation, backgrounds, criticism / Voltaire ; translated and edited by Robert M. Adams. [print]

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: A Norton critical editionPublication details: New York : Norton, [(c)1991.Edition: second editionDescription: viii, 208, [1. pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0393960587
  • 9780393960587
Uniform titles:
  • Candide. English
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PQ2082.C363 1991
  • PQ2082.C3.A216.C363 1991
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Contents:
Preface to the second edition Text of candide, or Optimism ; "Candide" and Mademoiselle "Cunegonde": Note on their names Candide Backgrounds Summary: Intellectual backgrounds Robert M. Adams Well, everything is well Voltaire at Les Delices and at Ferney Gustave Lanson ; [Gestation: Candide assembling itself] / Haydn Mason English visitors to Ferney: Sampling August 1763 Edward Gibbon December 1764 James Boswell August 1771 Rev. Norton Nicholls July 1770 Charles Burney ; (Eighth Duke of Hamilton), July 1772 John Moore Douglas Hamilton Criticism: Conte defined Robert M. Adams Checklist of the Contes of Voltaire, and related writings ; [Tone, pace, insinuation] / Erich Auerbach ; [Voltaire and Candide] / I. O. Wade Quality of Candide J. G. Weightman ; [Voltaire's escape from pascal] / Ernst Cassirer Getting the point Robert M. Adams Climate of controversy Voltaire's Faith Voltaire: Letter on the subject of candide ; [What did Voltaire mean by l'Infame/ Peter Gay Andre Delattre Voltaire's Greatness Joseph de Maistre Victor Hugo Edmond and Jules Goncourt Voltaire's Coherence Emile Faguet Daniel Mornet Raymond Naves Voltaire's Humanity Madame de Stael Gustave Lanson Voltaire's Style Hippolyte Taine John Morley Short Takes: Anatole France Gustave Flaubert George Saintsbury Andre Bellessort Emile Faguet Frederick the Great S. G. Tallentyre Peter Gay Stendhal ; [Pangloss's song] ; Richard Wilbur Thomas Jefferson Jacques Van Den Heuvel Andre Delattre Hugo Friedrich Voltaire's apotheosis Paul Valery Further reading.
Summary: Presents an annotated edition of the story of a simple, optimistic man whose travels take him from one disaster to another; and includes backgrounds, a selection of critical essays, and a summary of the debate surrounding Voltaire's works.
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Preface to the second edition Text of candide, or Optimism ; "Candide" and Mademoiselle "Cunegonde": Note on their names Candide Backgrounds Summary: Intellectual backgrounds Robert M. Adams Well, everything is well Voltaire at Les Delices and at Ferney Gustave Lanson ; [Gestation: Candide assembling itself] / Haydn Mason English visitors to Ferney: Sampling August 1763 Edward Gibbon December 1764 James Boswell August 1771 Rev. Norton Nicholls July 1770 Charles Burney ; (Eighth Duke of Hamilton), July 1772 John Moore Douglas Hamilton Criticism: Conte defined Robert M. Adams Checklist of the Contes of Voltaire, and related writings ; [Tone, pace, insinuation] / Erich Auerbach ; [Voltaire and Candide] / I. O. Wade Quality of Candide J. G. Weightman ; [Voltaire's escape from pascal] / Ernst Cassirer Getting the point Robert M. Adams Climate of controversy Voltaire's Faith Voltaire: Letter on the subject of candide ; [What did Voltaire mean by l'Infame/ Peter Gay Andre Delattre Voltaire's Greatness Joseph de Maistre Victor Hugo Edmond and Jules Goncourt Voltaire's Coherence Emile Faguet Daniel Mornet Raymond Naves Voltaire's Humanity Madame de Stael Gustave Lanson Voltaire's Style Hippolyte Taine John Morley Short Takes: Anatole France Gustave Flaubert George Saintsbury Andre Bellessort Emile Faguet Frederick the Great S. G. Tallentyre Peter Gay Stendhal ; [Pangloss's song] ; Richard Wilbur Thomas Jefferson Jacques Van Den Heuvel Andre Delattre Hugo Friedrich Voltaire's apotheosis Paul Valery Further reading.

Presents an annotated edition of the story of a simple, optimistic man whose travels take him from one disaster to another; and includes backgrounds, a selection of critical essays, and a summary of the debate surrounding Voltaire's works.

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