{"product_id":"voltaires-candide-penguin-1968","title":"Voltaire's Candide - Penguin, 1968","description":"\u003cbr\u003eTitle: Candide \u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Voltaire\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: 1968\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Softcover\u003cbr\u003eCondition: This book is in good condition for its age other than some minor signs of wear, stamp on endpaper and tanned pages.\u003c!-- split --\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eReader's note\u003c\/h2\u003e\nThis eye-catching paperback is a 1968 Penguin edition of Voltaire's Candide. When he wrote this novel, Voltaire gained a reputation throughout Europe as a tragic dramatist, an epic poet, and a liberal-minded historian. Candide, although his wittiest novel, deals with the problems of suffering and the existence of evil, and in it Voltaire attacks the hopelessness and callousness of the 'all is for the best' philosophy, as personified by the tutor Pangloss. The resilience of human nature, however, is emphasised in the amazing reversals of fortune which Candide and his friends survive. The artistry of Voltaire's story-telling is admirably conveyed in this translation by Professor John Butt.","brand":"Country House Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39860910653527,"sku":"7859105","price":9.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2458\/8207\/products\/orig_243364_jpg.jpg?v=1658916087","url":"https:\/\/countryhouselibrary.co.uk\/products\/voltaires-candide-penguin-1968","provider":"Country House Library ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}