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EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Candide*, by **Voltaire**, is part of the *Barnes & Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes & Noble Classics*: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes & Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. One of the finest satires ever written, **Voltaire**’s *Candide* savagely skewers this very optimistic” approach to life as a shamefully inadequate response to human suffering. The swift and lively tale follows the absurdly melodramatic adventures of the youthful Candide, who is forced into the army, flogged, shipwrecked, betrayed, robbed, separated from his beloved Cunégonde, and tortured by the Inquisition. As Candide experiences and witnesses calamity upon calamity, he begins to discover thatcontrary to the teachings of his tutor, Dr. Panglossa

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Author

Voltaire

Publisher

Spark Educational Publishing

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781593080280

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Romance, Fiction

Rating

3.76 / 5 (1,495 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13