Author:
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Imprint:Belmont, CA : Wadsworth Pub. Co., [1962]
Descriptionx, 182 p. ; 22 cm.
Note:"A complete text of the novel, an introductory essay ... and some of the best criticism on Candide."
Note:The background of Candide / George R. Havens. - The best comic fool / Nicolas-Claude Thieriot. - Gaiety and bad tase / Friedrich M. Grimm. - Gloom and discontent / Edward Young. - Candide and Rasselas / James Boswell. - That scoffing philosophy / Mme de Staël. - This dull product of a scoffer's pen / William Wordsworth. - A masterpiece of wit / William Hazlitt. - Mere logical pleasantry / Thomas Carlyle. - A most extraordinary performance / Henry Brougham. - Fresh and unflagging spontaneity / John Morley. - Clarity, simplicity, and wit / G. Lytton Strachey. - Voltaire's use of irony / William H. Barber. - The nature of evil / Radoslav A. Tsanoff. - The Lisbon earthquake / Thomas D. Kendrick. - Voltaire and Candide / Ira O. Wade. - The nature doctrine of Voltaire / George R. Havens. - Voltaire's Candide and the problem of seculariation / Ludwig W. Kahn. - Theme: Eldorado / William F. Bottiglia. - On re-reading Candide / Aldous Huxley. - Voltaire / André Maurois. - Counterirritants and consolations / Norman L. Torrey.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographies.
