EASTON PRESS: VOLTAIRE: CANDIDE: 18TH CENTURY FRENCH SATIRE

Description: Easton Press leather edition of Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire's "Candide, or Optimism," Translated by Richard Aldington, Introduction by Paul Morand, Illustrated by Sylvain Sauvage, a COLLECTOR'S edition, one of the 100 GREATEST BOOKS EVER WRITTEN series, published in 197. Bound in blue/gray leather, the book has camel tan moire silk end leaves, hubbed spine, a satin book marker, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, gold gilding on three edges---in FINE condition. François-Marie Arouet, who lived from 1694 – 1778, known by his pen name, Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer whose attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and expression and separation of church and state made him controversial. Published in 1759, in Voltaire's sixty-fifth year, the book became immensely popular despite being officially condemned for its indirect but severe social criticism. "Candide" begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with "optimism" by his mentor, Professor Pangloss. Candide is kicked out of paradise for kissing the Baron's daughter and slowly and often painfully experiences disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world, searching for a "perfect place," but everywhere he finds man's greed, lust, violence, and indifference, even among church officials. Only in EL DORADO, a never-never land, does Candide find happiness, wealth, contentment, but after a month he cannot stand "paradise" because he says he does not have "Miss Cunegunde." Candide's three mentors: Dr. Pangloss, Cacambo, and Martin---three men, one an optimist, one a realist, and one a pessimist---cannot provide him the answers to life. The author does not attempt any historical accuracy, and some of the problems Candide faces are thinly disguised references to social and political problems of Voltaire's own day. Victor Hugo said: "We say, the Age of Pericles, the Age of Augustus, the Age of Louis XIV, the Age of Voltaire is more than a chief of state; he is a chief of ideas; with Voltaire a new cycle begins. 131 pages. I offer Combined shipping.

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