Candide (Bantam Classics)
Edition: Bantam Classic edition
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Published: April 1, 1984
Language: eng; und
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780553211665
Subjects: Literature: Texts; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Classics; Classics; Fiction / Classics
Description: The story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the philosophical optimism that proclaims that all disaster and human suffering is part of a benevolent cosmic plan.