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Candide by Voltaire is one of the sharpest, funniest, and most enduring satires ever written. Fast-moving, outrageous, and brilliantly witty, this classic follows the innocent Candide as he is thrown from comfort into a world of war, disaster, cruelty, greed, hypocrisy, and absurdity.

Raised to believe that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds," Candide soon discovers that philosophy is much easier to defend from a comfortable armchair than from the middle of catastrophe. His journey carries him across countries, continents, shipwrecks, battles, earthquakes, corrupt courts, religious hypocrisy, and impossible misfortune - all while he searches for love, meaning, and a way to make sense of human suffering.

With biting humor and remarkable speed, Voltaire attacks blind optimism, empty theory, fanaticism, social injustice, and the comforting lies people tell themselves about the world. Yet beneath the comedy is a lasting question: how should a person live when life refuses to match our neat explanations?

This edition is prepared for clear, comfortable reading while preserving the brilliance, irony, and satirical force of Voltaire's original work. For readers of classic literature, philosophy, satire, and dark comedy, Candide remains essential - a wickedly entertaining journey through folly, suffering, and the hard-won wisdom of tending one's own garden.

Parametry knihy

• Plný název: Candide
• Podnázev: A Satirical Classic of Optimism, Folly, and the Search for Wisdom
• Autor: Voltaire
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 148
• EAN: 9798295852374
• ID: 53493207
• Nakladatelství: Curated Collection Publishing
• Hmotnost: 181 g
• Rozměry: 216 × 140 × 9 mm
• Datum vydání: 01. August 2026

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