Francois Voltaire - Böcker

Candide växer upp i en skyddad tillvaro hos baron von Thunder-ten-Trunckh i hans vackra slott i Westfalen. Han blir förälskad i baronens dotter Kunigunda och när deras ömsesidiga kärlek uppdagas blir Candide jagad från slottet. Detta är upptakten ...

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François Voltaire [1694?1778] var en fransk författare och upplysningsfilosof. Candide är en satirisk pikareskroman och idéroman från 1759. Den driver med den samtida tänkaren Leibniz och hans budskap att vi lever i "den bästa av världar".

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Lever vi i en värld som i grunden är bra? Eller i en värld där många saker kunde och borde vara mycket bättre? För den unge Candide är saken glasklar: vi lever i en värld som i själva verket är bättre än bra i den bästa av världar. Det har hans lä...

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Also known as the Lettres anglaises ou philosophiques, Voltaire's response to his exile in England offered the French public of 1734 a panoramic view of British culture. Perceiving them as a veiled attack against the ancien regime, however, the Fr...

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"Det mord som med rättvisans svärd förövades på Calas i Toulouse den 9 mars 1762 är en av de säregna tilldragelser som förtjänar vår tids och eftervärldens uppmärksamhet." Utgångspunkten för Voltaires resonemang i Traktat om toleransen (...

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'The prince of philosophical novels' John Updike In Candide, Voltaire threw down an audacious challenge to the philosophical views of the Enlightenment to create one of the most glorious satires of the eighteenth century. His eponymous hero is an ...

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Something between a tale and a polemic, these "fables of reason" are feats of narrative compression and contain much of Voltaire's best and funniest writing. From ribald tales of adultery to conversations between cosmic travellers, the s...

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"Det mord som med rättvisans svärd förövades på Calas i Toulouse den 9 mars 1762 är en av de säregna tilldragelser som förtjänar vår tids och eftervärldens uppmärksamhet." Utgångspunkten för Voltaires resonemang i Traktat om toleransen (1763) är a...

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'The prince of philosophical novels' John UpdikeIn Candide, Voltaire threw down an audacious challenge to the philosophical views of the Enlightenment to create one of the most glorious satires of the eighteenth century. His eponymous hero is an i...

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Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, first published in 1764, is a series of short, radical essays - alphabetically arranged - that form a brilliant and bitter analysis of the social and religious conventions that then dominated eighteenth-century...

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Something between a tale and a polemic, these "e;fables of reason"e; are feats of narrative compression and contain much of Voltaire's best and funniest writing. From ribald tales of adultery to conversations between cosmic travellers, the...

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Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Roy McMillan, narrator of Underland by Robert MacFarlane, The Second Sleep by Robert Harris and Love is Blind by William Boyd. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Ha...

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With its vibrant new translation, perceptive introduction, and witty packaging, this new edition of Voltaire's masterpiece belongs in the hands of every reader pondering our assumptions about human behavior and our place in the world. Candide tell...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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This essential collection from the genius Voltaire includes his masterpiece and best-known work "Candide" as well as his novel "Zadig" and 14 short stories. Revised reissue.

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Caustic and hilarious, Candide has ranked as one of the world's great satires since its first publication in 1759. It concerns the adventures of the youthful Candide, disciple of Dr. Pangloss, who was himself a disciple of Leibniz. In the course o...

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best effor...

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the orig...

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"It seems to me," said George Eliot, "much better to read a man's own writings, than to read what others say about him, especially when the man is first-rate and the others third-rate."In these words lie perhaps the best reason...

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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary is one of the most emblematic works of the French Enlightenment. Caustic, witty, and bold, the work was accused by French auth...

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