Title Candide, or, Optimism : a fresh translation, backgrounds, criticism / Voltaire ; translated and edited by Robert M. Adams

Edition Second edition Published New York : Norton, [1991] New York : W Norton and Company, c1991 ©1966 ©1991

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Description viii, 208 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 22 cm Series A Norton critical edition Norton critical edition. Contents Text of Candide, or Optimism -- "Candide" and Mademoiselle "Cunegonde": Note on their names -- Candide -- Backgrounds -- Summary: Intellectual backgrounds / Robert M. Adams -- Well, everything is well -- Voltaire at Les Delices and at Ferney / Gustave Lanson -- [Gestation: Candide assembling itself] / Haydn Mason -- English visitors to Ferney: Sampling -- August 1763 -- Edward Gibbon -- December 1764 -- James Boswell -- August 1771 -- Rev. Norton Nicholls -- July 1770 -- Charles Burney -- (Eighth Duke of Hamilton), July 1772 -- John Moore -- Douglas Hamilton -- Criticism: Conte defined / Robert M. Adams -- Checklist of the Contes of Voltaire, and related writings -- [Tone, pace, insinuation] / Erich Auerbach -- [Voltaire and Candide] / I. O. Wade -- Quality of Candide / J. G. Weightman -- [Voltaire's escape from pascal] / Ernst Cassirer -- Getting the point / Robert M. Adams -- Climate of controversy -- Voltaire's Faith -- Voltaire: Letter on the subject of candide -- [What did Voltaire mean by l'Infame?] / Peter Gay -- Andre Delattre -- Voltaire's Greatness -- Joseph de Maistre -- Victor Hugo -- Edmond and Jules Goncourt -- Voltaire's Coherence -- Emile Faguet -- Daniel Mornet -- Raymond Naves -- Voltaire's Humanity -- Madame de Stael -- Gustave Lanson -- Voltaire's Style -- Hippolyte Taine -- John Morley -- Short Takes: Anatole France -- Gustave Flaubert -- George Saintsbury -- Andre Bellessort -- Emile Faguet -- Frederick the Great -- S. G. Tallentyre Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page [209]) Notes English Subject Voltaire, 1694-1778 -- Criticism Voltaire, 1694-1778. Candide. French fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism. French fiction -- 18th century. French literature -- Translations into English. Genre/Form Fiction. Author Adams, Robert M. (Robert Martin), 1915-1996. LC no. 90036677 ISBN 0393960587

Other Titles Candide. English Candide Optimism Optimism

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