Authors: Voltaire, John Butt (Translator), John Butt
ISBN-13: 9780140440041, ISBN-10: 0140440046
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: June 1950
Edition: Reissue
Burton Raffel is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Arts and Humanities and emeritus professor of English, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His other translations from the French include Stendhal’s The Red and the Black and Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel, winner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize, 1992.
Two standards of European literature join Penguin's Classics Deluxe Editions club. Candide sports an especially spiffy cover by comic artist Chris Ware and a top text. The Undset volume combines all three parts of the epic with explanatory notes. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
Candide, or optimism | 1 | |
App. 1 | The alternative version of the opening of chapter 22 | 95 |
App. 2 | Voltaire's Poem on the Lisbon disaster | 97 |
App. 3 | Entries from Voltaire's Philosophical dictionary | 109 |