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Age of Enlightenment
by Isaiah Berlin

ISBN 0836918223 (0-8369-1822-3)
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The Age of Voltaire
by Will Durant

ISBN 1567310206 (1-56731-020-6)
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Candide
by Francois M. Voltaire

ISBN 1416500308 (1-4165-0030-8)
Softcover, Pocket Classics

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Political satire doesn't age well, but occasionally a diatribe contains enough art and universal mirth to survive long after its timeliness has passed. Candide is such a book. Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Candide is steeped in the political and philosophical controversies of the 1750s. But for the general reader, the novel's driving principle is clear enough: the idea (endemic in Voltaire's day) that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and apparent folly, misery and strife are actually harbingers of a greater good we cannot perceive, is hogwash.
Telling the tale of the good-natured but star-crossed Candide (think Mr. Magoo armed with deadly force), as he travels the world struggling to be reunited with his love, Lady Cunegonde, the novel smashes such ill-conceived optimism to splinters. Candide's tutor, Dr. Pangloss, is steadfast in his philosophical good cheer, in the face of more and more fantastic misfortune; Candide's other companions always supply good sense in the nick of time. Still, as he demolishes optimism, Voltaire pays tribute to human resilience, and in doing so gives the book a pleasant indomitability common to farce. Says one character, a princess turned one-buttocked hag by unkind Fate: "I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most melancholy propensities; for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one's very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?"--Michael Gerber [via]
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Candide
by Daniel Gordon, Francois M. Voltaire

ISBN 0312148542 (0-312-14854-2)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins

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Candide, Voltaire's biting portrayal of eighteenth-century European society, is a central text of the Enlightenment and essential reading for history students today. Preserving the text's provocative nature, Daniel Gordon's new translation enhances Candide's read-ability and highlights the text's wit and satire for twentieth-century readers. The introduction places the work and its author in historical context, showing students how the complexities of Voltaire's life relate to the events, philosophy, and characters of Candide. A related documents section - with personal correspondence to and from Voltaire - gives students another lens through which to view this influential thinker. Helpful editorial features include explanatory notes throughout the text and a chronology of Voltaire's life. [via]
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Candide
by F. M. Voltaire, Roger Pearson

ISBN 0192817302 (0-19-281730-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Political satire doesn't age well, but occasionally a diatribe contains enough art and universal mirth to survive long after its timeliness has passed. Candide is such a book. Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Candide is steeped in the political and philosophical controversies of the 1750s. But for the general reader, the novel's driving principle is clear enough: the idea (endemic in Voltaire's day) that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and apparent folly, misery and strife are actually harbingers of a greater good we cannot perceive, is hogwash.
Telling the tale of the good-natured but star-crossed Candide (think Mr. Magoo armed with deadly force), as he travels the world struggling to be reunited with his love, Lady Cunegonde, the novel smashes such ill-conceived optimism to splinters. Candide's tutor, Dr. Pangloss, is steadfast in his philosophical good cheer, in the face of more and more fantastic misfortune; Candide's other companions always supply good sense in the nick of time. Still, as he demolishes optimism, Voltaire pays tribute to human resilience, and in doing so gives the book a pleasant indomitability common to farce. Says one character, a princess turned one-buttocked hag by unkind Fate: "I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most melancholy propensities; for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one's very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?"--Michael Gerber [via]
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Candide
by Burton Raffel, Francois M. Voltaire

ISBN 0300106556 (0-300-10655-6)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr

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In this new translation of Voltaires Candide, distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the French novels irreverent spirit and offers a vivid, contemporary version of the 250-year-old text. Raffel casts the novel in an English idiom that--had Voltaire been a twenty-first-century American--he might himself have employed. The translation is immediate and unencumbered, and for the first time makes Voltaire the satirist a wicked pleasure for English-speaking readers.
Candide recounts the fantastically improbable travels, adventures, and misfortunes of the young Candide, his beloved Cunégonde, and his devoutly optimistic tutor, Pangloss. Endowed at the start with good fortune and every prospect for happiness and success, the characters nevertheless encounter every conceivable misfortune. Voltaires philosophical tale, in part an ironic attack on the optimistic thinking of such figures as G. W. Leibniz and Alexander Pope, has proved enormously influential over the years. In a general introduction to this volume, historian Johnson Kent Wright places Candide in the contexts of Voltaires life and work and the Age of Enlightenment.
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Candide
by Gita May, Henry Morley, Francois M. Voltaire, Alan Odle, Lauren Walsh

ISBN 159308028X (1-59308-028-X)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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Candide, by Voltaire, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.
One of the finest satires ever written, Voltaires Candide savagely skewers this very optimistic approach to life as a shamefully inadequate response to human suffering. The swift and lively tale follows the absurdly melodramatic adventures of the youthful Candide, who is forced into the army, flogged, shipwrecked, betrayed, robbed, separated from his beloved Cunégonde, and tortured by the Inquisition. As Candide experiences and witnesses calamity upon calamity, he begins to discover thatcontrary to the teachings of his tutor, Dr. Panglossall is perhaps not always for the best. After many trials, travails, and incredible reversals of fortune, Candide and his friends finally retire together to a small farm, where they discover that the secret of happiness is simply to cultivate one's garden, a philosophy that rejects excessive optimism and metaphysical speculation in favor of the most basic pragmatism.
Filled with wit, intelligence, and an abundance of dark humor, Candide is relentless and unsparing in its attacks upon corruption and hypocrisyin religion, government, philosophy, science, and even romance. Ultimately, this celebrated work says that it is possible to challenge blind optimism without losing the will to live and pursue a happy life.
Gita May is Professor of French at Columbia University. She has published extensively on the French Enlightenment, eighteenth-century aesthetics, the novel and autobiography, and women in literature, history, and the arts.
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Candide
by O. R. Taylor, Francois M. Voltaire, Haydn Mason

ISBN 0631004009 (0-631-00400-9)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub

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Candide
by Shane Weller, Francois M. Voltaire

ISBN 0486276252 (0-486-27625-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Voltaire's brilliant satire, in the original French, with a new and exacting English translation on the opposing page. Through the adventures of Candide, we experience life's most crushing misfortunes, see the redeeming wisdom those misfortunes can bring all the while enjoying Voltaire's witty burlesque of human excess.
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Candide and Other Tales
by Francois M. Voltaire

ISBN 0460019368 (0-460-01936-8)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd

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Candide and Related Texts
by Voltaire, David Wootton

ISBN 0872205460 (0-87220-546-0)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc

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This lively new translation of Voltaire's satiric masterpiece is accompanied by a short selection of writings of each of the most prominent optimists to whom Voltaire was responding -- Leibniz, Bolingbroke, Shaftesbury, Pope, Wolff, Rousseau, and Malebranche -- and thus offers a better perspective of the intellectual context in which Candide was written, and of its place in Enlightenment though, than does any other edition. [via]
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Candide and Zadig
by Voltaire

ISBN 3829008856 (3-8290-0885-6)
Hardcover, Konemann

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Candide or Optimism: A Fresh Translation, Backgrounds, Criticism
by Voltaire

ISBN 0393960587 (0-393-96058-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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Robert M. Adams's superlative revised translation of Candide provides the basis for this widely adopted Norton Critical Edition.
The accompanying apparatus has been revised in accordance with recent biographical and critical materials. The Backgrounds and Criticism sections provide important essays that shed light on major critical issues relevant to Candide and to the intellectual climate of the period. In addition to the reports of five English visitors to Ferney, essays by Haydn Mason, Erich Auerbach, Ernst Cassirer, and Robert M. Adams are included. The final section of the edition, "The Climate of Controversy," summarizes the debate surrounding Voltaire's works and includes essays by Peter Gay, Raymond Naves, Gustave Lanson, and John Morley. Also included are a series of quotations about Voltaire by such prominent figures as Gustave Flaubert, Frederick the Great, and Stendhal, as well as the text of "Pangloss's Song," a ballad from the 1956 Candide-based operetta by Richard Wilbur. [via]
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Candide : Or, Optimism
by Peter Constantine, Voltaire, Diane Johnson

ISBN 0679643133 (0-679-64313-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group

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In this splendid new translation of Voltaires satiric masterpiece, all the celebrated wit, irony, and trenchant social commentary of one of the great works of the Enlightenment is restored and refreshed.

Voltaire may have cast a jaundiced eye on eighteenth-century Europea place that was definitely not the best of all possible worlds. But amid its decadent society, despotic rulers, civil and religious wars, and other ills, Voltaire found a mother lode of comic material. And this is why Peter Constantines thoughtful translation is such a pleasure, presenting all the books subtlety and ribald joys precisely as Voltaire had intended.

The globe-trotting misadventures of the youthful Candide; his tutor, Dr. Pangloss; Martin, and the exceptionally trouble-prone object of Candides affections, Cunégonde, as they brave exile, destitution, cannibals, and numerous deprivation, provoke both belly laughs and deep contemplation about the roles of hope and suffering in human life.

The transformation of Candides outlook from panglossian optimism to realism neatly lays out Voltaires philosophythat even in Utopia, life is less about happiness than survivalbut not before providing us with one of literatures great and rare pleasures. [via]
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Candide Ou L'Optimisme
by Voltaire

ISBN 0844210765 (0-8442-1076-5)
Softcover, Natl Textbook Co

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This edition is essentially that of Richard Aldington edited with reference to the French editions by Andr Morize and George R. Havens. Norman L. Torrey's introduction is a brief commentary on Voltaire's central purpose of reducing the doctrine of philosophical optimism to absurdity. Also included are a list of principal dates in the life of Voltaire and a selected bibliography. [via]
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Candide, and Other Tales
by Fran-Cois Marie Arouet De Voltaire

ISBN 1406790249 (1-4067-9024-9)
Softcover, Read Books

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Candide, Zadig, and Other Stories
by Voltaire, Donald Murdoch Frame, John Iverson

ISBN 0451528093 (0-451-52809-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Candide, Zadig and Selected Stories
by Voltaire, Francoise M. Devoltaire

ISBN 0451524268 (0-451-52426-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Cliffsnotes Candide
by Francois Marie Arouet

ISBN 0822002833 (0-8220-0283-3)
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The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background.
CliffsNotes on Candide explores the best known philosophic tale from Voltaire. The tale is a vehicle for his profoundest views on politics, religion, and philosophy. At the same time, it is an adventure tale about a young hero who travels far and wide and experiences great dangers.
With this study guide, youll see why Voltaire is considered among the greatest satirists in literature. Along with detailed explanations of the plot, your understanding will increase with insight into the life and times of the author. Other features that help you study include
Background on Voltaires contemporaries and influences
Character analyses of major players
A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters
Critical essays
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Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.
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Coming of the French Revolution
by Georges Lefebvre, R. R. Palmer, Timothy Tackett

ISBN 0691121885 (0-691-12188-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr

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An in-depth portrait of France during the year 1789, which analyzes the causes, forces and nature of the Revolution. [via]
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Cuatro visiones de la Historia Universal/ Four Visions of the Universal History: San Agustin; Vico; Voltaire Y Hegel
by Jose Ferrater Mora

ISBN 8420660469 (84-206-6046-9)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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Dictionary of the History of Ideas
by Philip P. Wiener

ISBN 0684164256 (0-684-16425-6)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Co

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STUDIES OF SELECTED IDEAS VOLUME IV 1973 [via]
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History of Philosophy: Descartes to Liebniz
by Frederick Copleston

ISBN 0809100681 (0-8091-0068-1)
Hardcover, Paulist Pr

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History of Philosophy: Fichte to Nietzsche
by Frederick Copleston

ISBN 0809100711 (0-8091-0071-1)
Hardcover, Paulist Pr

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Challenges the complexities of German philosophy in the wake of post-Kantian idealism in the 19th century. [via]
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Letters Concerning the English Nation
by Voltaire, Nicholas Cronk

ISBN 0192837087 (0-19-283708-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Inspired by Voltaire's two-year stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightenment. His controversial pronouncements on politics, philosophhy, religion, and literature have placed the Letters among the great Augustan satires.
Voltaire wrote most of the book in English, in which he was fluent and witty, and it fast became a bestseller in Britain. He re-wrote it in French as the Lettres Philosophiques, and current editions in English translate his French. This edition restores for the modern reader Voltaire's own English text, allowing us to appreciate him as a stylist at first hand. It is the only critical edition of the original text and, as well as providing an introduction and notes, it includes intriguing accounts of Voltaire by contemporary English observers. [via]
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Letters on England
by Fran-Cois Marie Arouet De Voltaire, Leonard Tancock

ISBN 014044386X (0-14-044386-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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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 French government ordered the letters burned and Voltaire persecuted. [via]
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Letters on England
by Voltaire

ISBN 1404313451 (1-4043-1345-1)
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This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare s finesse to Oscar Wilde s wit, this unique collection brings together works as diverse and influential as The Pilgrim s Progress and Othello. As an anthology that invites readers to immerse themselves in the masterpieces of the literary giants, it is must-have addition to any library. [via]
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Lettres Philosophiques
by Voltaire, F. A. Taylor

ISBN 0631004505 (0-631-00450-5)
Hardcover, B. Blackwell

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Madame Du Deffand and Her World
by Benedetta Craveri, Teresa Waugh

ISBN 1567920012 (1-56792-001-2)
Hardcover, David R Godine Pub

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This biography of Madame du Deffand describes the life of this highly intelligent libertine and the role she played in the social and cultural life of 18th-century France. Quoting extensively from her subject's correspondence, Craveri attempts to relive the world of the "philosophes" of the Enlightment, centred around Voltaire and d'Alembert, and unravels a complex world of extreme intelligence, taste and sensibility, revealing a new view of reality, full of foreboding for the future. Gifted with destructive insight, and dominated by obsessive boredom, Madame du Deffand tended towards cynicism and wariness in her opinion of men, ever-fearful of being disappointed by others. When she became old and blind, she developed a passion for the young English writer Horace Walpole, son of the Prime Minister. The author has been awarded the Viareggio and Comisso prizes in Italy and the Prix de Meilleur Livre Etranger in France for this biography. [via]
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The Occult Conspiracy
by Howard

ISBN 156731225X (1-56731-225-X)
Hardcover, Fine Communications

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The power of secret societies in world history. [via]
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The Occult Conspiracy: Secret Societies - Their Influence and Power in World History
by Michael Howard

ISBN 0892812516 (0-89281-251-6)
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It is a little-known fact that for thousands of years secret societies and occult groups--guardians of ancient esoteric wisdom--have exercised a strong and often crucial influence on the destiny of nations. As Freemasons, Knights Templar, and Rosicrucians they affected the course of the French and American revolutions as well as the overthrow of the medieval order. Inevitably, the true ideals and esoteric practices of these societies have at times been perverted by self-serving individuals. The Nazis, of course, but also the British security forces, the founding fathers of America, and the Vatican have all had a part--for good or ill--in the occult conspiracy
The author explores these connections, tracing occult influences in politics and statecraft from the time of ancient Egypt to the present. He sheds light on these influences in government and in the lives of many well-known figures, including Frederick the Great, John Dee, Francis Bacon, Benjamin Franklin, Comte Cagliostro, Helen Blavatsky, Rasputin, and Woodrow Wilson. Reading The Occult Conspiracy, we are left with little doubt that the secret societies--largely ignored by orthodox historians and persecuted throughout history--have survived and continue to operate powerfully in world affairs today. [via]
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Office Yoga: Simple Stretches for Busy People
by Darrin Zeer, Michael Klein

ISBN 0811826856 (0-8118-2685-6)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc

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Yoga has gone completely mainstream. Sensible people everywhere are saying "Om" and doing postures once a week. Enter the world's easiest yoga book for the place we need it most: work! Renowned teacher Darrin Zeer brings this ancient Indian art to the modern-day office with a fully illustrated, easy-to-use guide offering 75 stress-relieving stretches perfect for the cube environment. Unlike most yoga guides, Office Yoga offers a fun, accessible approach and is useful for both beginners and experts. Exercises are organized by time of day and for a variety of situationswaking stretches, commute exercises, on-the-phone and at-the-copy machine stretches. Humorous and colorful illustrations by Michael Klein enliven exercises that can be performed anywhere from the elevator to the conference room. This handy little book will fit nicely on any desktop, and makes a great gift for the workaholic in your life. [via]
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Philosophical Dictionary
by Voltaire, Theodore Besterman

ISBN 014044257X (0-14-044257-X)
Softcover, Viking Pr

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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 French thought. One of the masterpieces of the Enlightenment, this enormously influential work of sardonic wit - more a collection of essays arranged alphabetically, than a conventional dictionary - considers such diverse subjects as Abraham and Atheism, Faith and Freedom of Thought, Miracles and Moses. Repeatedly condemned by civil and religious authorities, Voltaire's work argues passionately for the cause of reason and justice, and criticizes Christian theology and contemporary attitudes towards war and society - and claims, as he regards the world around him: 'common sense is not so common'. [via]
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Philosophical Letters: Letters Concerning the English Nation
by Ernest Dilworth, Voltaire

ISBN 0486426734 (0-486-42673-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Philosophical Letters: Voltaire
by Ernest Dilworth, Francois M. Voltaire

ISBN 0023306106 (0-02-330610-6)
Softcover, Prentice Hall

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Philosophy of the Enlightenment
by Ernst Cassirer

ISBN 0691019630 (0-691-01963-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr

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The Portable Voltaire
by Voltaire, Ben Ray Redman

ISBN 0140150412 (0-14-015041-2)
Softcover, Viking Pr

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Includes Part One of Candide; three stories; selections from The Philosophical Dictionary, The Lisbon Earthquake, and other works; and thirty-five letters.
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Rousseau and Revolution: A History of Civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and in the Remainder of Europe from 1715, to 1789
by Will Durant, Ariel Durant

ISBN 1567310214 (1-56731-021-4)
Hardcover, Fine Communications

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Story of Civilization
by Will Durant

ISBN 1567310230 (1-56731-023-0)
Hardcover, Fine Communications

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Complete 11 volume set of Will and Aerial The Story of Civilization plus two additional books 13 volumes total [via]
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The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Great Philosophers of the Western World
by Will Durant

ISBN 0671695002 (0-671-69500-2)
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Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers
by Will Durant

ISBN 067120159X (0-671-20159-X)
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Easily the most engaging writer of Western intellectual history in the English language, Will Durant breathes life into philosophers and their ideas. He is colorful, witty, and above all, informative. Beginning with Socrates and ending with American philosopher John Dewey, Durant summarizes the lives and influence of philosophy's greatest thinkers, painting them with humanity and adding a few of his own wise platitudes. Seventy-some years after its first printing, The Story of Philosophy still stands as one of the best of its kind. [via]
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The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
by Will Durant

ISBN 0671739166 (0-671-73916-6)
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Easily the most engaging writer of Western intellectual history in the English language, Will Durant breathes life into philosophers and their ideas. He is colorful, witty, and above all, informative. Beginning with Socrates and ending with American philosopher John Dewey, Durant summarizes the lives and influence of philosophy's greatest thinkers, painting them with humanity and adding a few of his own wise platitudes. Seventy-some years after its first printing, The Story of Philosophy still stands as one of the best of its kind. [via]
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Treatise on Tolerance: And Other Writings
by Voltaire, Simon Harvey, Brian Masters

ISBN 0521649692 (0-521-64969-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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A Treatise on Toleration and Other Essays
by Voltaire, Joseph McCabe

ISBN 0879758813 (0-87975-881-3)
Softcover, Prometheus Books

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Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom
by Roger Pearson

ISBN 1582346305 (1-58234-630-5)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr

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With its tales of illegitimacy, prison, stardom, exile, love affairs, and tireless battles against his critics, priests and king, Roger Pearsons Voltaire Almighty brings the father of Enlightenment to vivid life.

Voltaire Almighty provides a lively look at the life and thought of one of the major forces behind European Enlightenment. A rebel from start to finish (1694-1778), Voltaire was an ailing and unwanted bastard child who refused to die; and when he did consent to expire some eighty-four years later, he secured a Christian burial despite a bishops ban.

During much of his life Voltaire was the toast of society for his plays and verse, but his barbed wit and commitment to human reason got him into trouble. Jailed twice and eventually banished by the king, he was an outspoken critic of religious intolerance and persecution. His personal life was as colorful as his intellectual life. Of independent means and mind, Voltaire never married, but he had long-term affairs with two women: Emilie, who died after giving birth to the child of another lover, and his niece, Marie-Louise, with whom he spent the last twenty-five years of his life. The consummate outsider; a dissenter who craved acceptance while flamboyantly disdaining it; author of countless stories, poems, books, plays, treatises, and tracts as well as some twenty thousand letters to his friends: Voltaire lived a long, active life that makes for engaging and entertaining reading.
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Voltaire: Candide
by Haydn Trevor Mason

ISBN 1853993697 (1-85399-369-7)
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Brought up in the household of a powerful Baron, Candide is an open-minded young man, whose tutor, Pangloss, has instilled in him the belief that 'all is for the best'. But when his love for the Baron's rosy-cheeked daughter is discovered, Candide is cast out to make his own way in the world. And so he and his various companions begin a breathless tour of Europe, South America and Asia, as an outrageous series of disasters befall them - earthquakes, syphilis, a brush with the Inquisition, murder - sorely testing the young hero's optimism. [via]
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Voltaire In Exile: The Last Years, 1753-78
by Ian Davidson

ISBN 0802117910 (0-8021-1791-0)
Hardcover, Grove Pr

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Voltaire : Treatise on Tolerance
by Voltaire, Simon Harvey, Karl Ameriks, Desmond M. Clarke, Brian Masters

ISBN 0521640172 (0-521-64017-2)
Hardcover, Cambridge University Press

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The works presented in this volume, in a new English translation, are among the most important and characteristic texts of the Enlightenment, and bring together all three aspects of Voltaire: the writer, the doer and the philosophe. Originating in Voltaire's campaign to exonerate Jean Calas, they are works of polemical brilliance, informed by his deism and humanism and by Enlightenment values and ideals more generally. The issues that they raise, concerning questions of tolerance and human dignity, are still highly relevant to our own times. [via]
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Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary
by Voltaire

ISBN 1428040447 (1-4280-4044-7)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com

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This book does not demand continuous reading; but at whatever place one opens it, one will find matter for reflection. The most useful books are those of which readers themselves compose half; they extend the thoughts of which the germ is presented to them; they correct what seems defective to them, and they fortify by their reflections what seems to them weak. It is only really by enlightened people that this book can be read; the ordinary man is not made for such knowledge; philosophy will never be his lot. Those who say that there are truths which must be hidden from the people, need not be alarmed; the people do not read; they work six days of the week, and on the seventh go to the inn. In a word, philosophical works are made only for philosophers, and every honest man must try to be a philosopher, without pluming himself on being one. [via]
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What Is Goth?
by Voltaire

ISBN 1578633222 (1-57863-322-2)
Hardcover, Red Wheel/Weiser

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Zadig
by Voltaire

ISBN 203871701X (2-03-871701-X)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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La collection "Retour au texte" entend offrir à des prix attractifs le texte ou la traduction doeuvres au programme : présentation claire, appareil critique adapté. Elle met à la disposition des élèves un outil de travail pratique et correspondant à leurs besoins. [via]
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Candide
by Francois M. Voltaire

ISBN 0030801206 (0-03-080120-6)
Softcover, Holt Rinehart & Winston

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Brought up in the household of a powerful Baron, Candide is an open-minded young man, whose tutor, Pangloss, has instilled in him the belief that 'all is for the best'. But when his love for the Baron's rosy-cheeked daughter is discovered, Candide is cast out to make his own way in the world. And so he and his various companions begin a breathless tour of Europe, South America and Asia, as an outrageous series of disasters befall them - earthquakes, syphilis, a brush with the Inquisition, murder - sorely testing the young hero's optimism. [via]
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Candide
by Voltaire

ISBN 2253098086 (2-253-09808-6)
Softcover, Le Livre de poche

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218pages. 17,6x11x1,4cm. Poche. [via]
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Candide: Ou L'optimisme
by Voltaire

ISBN 2070389065 (2-07-038906-5)
Softcover, Le Livre de poche

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This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. [via]
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Cher Voltaire: La Correspondance De Madame Du Deffand Avec Voltaire
by Voltaire, Isabelle Vissiere, Jean Louis Vissiere, Marie de Vichy Chamrond Du Deffand

ISBN 2721003097 (2-7210-0309-7)
Hardcover, des Femmes

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Faceties
by Voltaire, Jean Macary

ISBN 2738468152 (2-7384-6815-2)
Hardcover, L'Harmattan

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Inventaire Voltaire
by Jean Marie Goulemot, Andre Magnan, Didier Masseau

ISBN 2070737578 (2-07-073757-8)
Hardcover, Gallimard

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La Revolution Francaise
by Claude Manceron, Anne Manceron

ISBN 2877420086 (2-87742-008-6)
Hardcover, Renaudot

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Voltaire, Candide: etude Quantitative. Dictionnaire De Frequence, Index Verborum Et Concordance De Candide. Essai De Methodologie Et D'analyse De Donnees Quantitatives
by Pierre R. Ducretet, Marie Paule Ducretet

ISBN 0802020968 (0-8020-2096-8)
Hardcover, University of Toronto Press

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Candido, O El Optimismo
by Voltaire

ISBN 140683260X (1-4068-3260-X)
Softcover, Echo Library

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The novella begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply optimism) by his mentor, Pangloss. The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle, followed by Candide's slow, painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. Voltaire concludes with Candide, if not outright rejecting optimism, advocating an enigmatic precept, "we must cultivate our garden", in lieu of the Leibnizian mantra of Pangloss, "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds".

Desde un punto de vista sardónico, la obra sigue las peripecias del protagonista Cándido en su primer encuentro con el precepto del optimismo leibniziano de que «todo sucede para bien en este, el mejor de los mundos posibles» y en una serie de aventuras subsecuentes que refutan de forma dramática el famoso precepto a pesar del obstinamiento con el que el personaje se aferra a éste.
La novela satiriza la filosofía de Leibniz, y es un muestrario de los horrores del mundo del siglo XVIII. En Cándido, Leibniz está representado por el filósofo Pangloss, tutor del protagonista. A pesar de observar y experimentar una serie de infortunios, Pangloss afirma repetidamente que «tout est au mieux» («todo sucede para bien») y que vive en «le meilleur des mondes possibles» («el mejor de los mundos posibles»).

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Cartas filosoficas/ Philosophical Letters
by Voltaire

ISBN 8420603090 (84-206-0309-0)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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El Jardin De Las Dudas
by Fernando Savater

ISBN 8408022385 (84-08-02238-5)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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