基本信息出版社：Penguin Classics
页码：200 页
出版日期：2005年10月
ISBN：0143039423
条形码：9780143039426
版本：Deluxe
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio

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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.

Candide 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. Controversial and entertaining, Candide is 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 Cuffe translated Voltaire’s Micromégas and Other Short Fictions for Penguin Classics.

Michael Wood is Straut Professor of English at Princeton. His books include The Magician’s Doubt and The Road to Delphi.

Chris Ware, one of many artists whose work has appeared in Raw magazine, has drawn for many publications, including the New York Times Magazine. Ware’s most well- known work includes Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth and his Acme Novelty Library series.