Candide(Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio)|报价￥156.40|图书,进口原版,Literature & Fiction 文学/小说,Classics 名著,Francois Voltaire

品牌：Francois Voltaire

基本信息

·出版社：Penguin Classics

·页码：200 页码

·出版日：2005年

·ISBN：0143039423

·条码：9780143039426

·版次：Deluxe

·装帧：平装

·丛书名：Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio

内容简介

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One of Western literature’s most glorious and incisive satires—now in a brilliant new translation with a bold new cover by Chris Ware

With its vibrant new translation, perceptive introduction, and witty packaging, this new edition of Voltaire’s irreverent, tragicomic masterpiece belongs in the hands of every reader pondering our assumptions about human behavior and our place in the world.Candidetells of the outrageous adventures of the naïve Candide, who doggedly believes that “all is for the best” even when faced with injustice, suffering, and despair. Controversial and entertaining,Candideis a book that is vitally relevant today in our world pervaded by—as Candide would say— “the mania for insisting that all is well when all is by no means well.”

This new translation of one of Western literature’s most glorious satires tells of the outrageous adventures of the naïve Candide, who doggedly believes that “all is for the best” even when faced with injustice, suffering, and despair.

作者简介

François-Marie Arouet(1694–1778), who took the name Voltaire, was the universal genius of the Enlightenment. He was briefly committed to the Bastille for his satires and later exiled to England.Theo Cuffetranslated Voltaire’sMicromégas and Other Short Fictionsfor Penguin Classics.Michael Woodis Straut Professor of English at Princeton. His books includeThe Magician’s DoubtandThe Road to Delphi.Chris Ware,one of many artists whose work has appeared inRawmagazine, has drawn for many publications, including theNew York Times Magazine. Ware’s most well- known work includesJimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earthand hisAcme Novelty Libraryseries.

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