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Candide: Optimism Demolished (Twayne's Masterwork Studies, No 104) by Haydn Trevor Mason is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Candide came into being largely because of Voltaire's great dissatisfaction with the explanation for the problem of evil and human suffering provided by the philosophers of his day. Published in 1759 when Voltaire was 65, Candide was a direct attack on the school of optimism championed by German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz and English poet Alexander Pope and popularized in the adventure and romance novels of the period. Optimism, Voltaire's young hero, Candide, asserts, is "the mania for asser
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- Author
- Haydn Trevor Mason
- Publisher
- New York: Twayne Publishers ; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780805785593
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, French, Literary Criticism
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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