Candide, Zadig and Selected Stories
by Voltaire (author); Donald M. Frame (translator, introduction)
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- Paperback
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0451516095
- ISBN 13
- 9780451516091
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Light surface wear to the front and back covers, including a small diagonal crease on the front. Interior pages clean and unmarked, though slightly age tanned.
Synopsis
François-Marie Arouet , writing under the pseudonym Voltaire , was born in 1694 into a Parisian bourgeois family. Educated by Jesuits, he was an excellent pupil but one quickly enraged by dogma. An early rift with his father—who wished him to study law—led to his choice of letters as a career. Insinuating himself into court circles, he became notorious for lampoons on leading notables and was twice imprisoned in the Bastille. By his mid-thirties his literary activities precipitated a four-year exile in England where he won the praise of Swift and Pope for his political tracts. His publication, three years later in France, of Lettres philosophiques sur les Anglais (1733)—an attack on French Church and State—forced him to flee again. For twenty years Voltaire lived chiefly away from Paris. In this, his most prolific period, he wrote such satirical tales as “ Zadig ” (1747) and “ Candide ” (1759). His old age at Ferney, outside Geneva, was made bright by his adopted daughter, “Belle et Bonne,” and marked by his intercessions in behalf of victims of political injustice. Sharp-witted and lean in his white wig, impatient with all appropriate rituals, he died in Paris in 1778—the foremost French author of his day.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0828-HCST-BX85-2.79
- Title
- Candide, Zadig and Selected Stories
- Author
- Voltaire (author); Donald M. Frame (translator, introduction)
- Format/Binding
- Glued binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0451516095
- ISBN 13
- 9780451516091
- Publisher
- Signet Books/New American Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1981
- Pages
- 352
- Bookseller catalogs
- French History and Literature;
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- Age Tanned
- Age tanning, or browning, occurs over time on the pages of books. This process can show up on just the edges of pages, when...