Candide, or, Optimism /
"In this new translation of Voltaire's Candide, distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the French novel's 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-ce...
| Основен автор: | Voltaire, 1694-1778. |
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| Други автори: | Raffel, Burton. |
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English French |
| Публикувано: |
New Haven :
Yale University Press,
℗♭2005.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
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Candide, or, Optimism. |
Съдържание:
- How Candide was raised in a noble mansion, and how he was driven
- What happened to Candide among the Bulgars
- How Candide saved himself from the Bulgars, and what became of him
- How Candide met his old philosophy teacher, Doctor Pangloss, and what had happened to him
- Tempest, shipwreck, earthquake, and what happened to Doctor Pangloss, Candide, and Jacques the Anabaptist
- How they had a beautiful auto-da-fe in order to put an end to the earthquake, and how Candide was flogged
- How an old woman took care of Candide and how he got back his beloved
- Cunegonde's story
- What happened to Cunegonde, to Candide, to the Grand Inquisitor, and to a Jew
- In what difficulty Candide, Cunegonde, and the old woman reached Cadiz, and how they boarded a ship
- The old woman's story
- More about the old woman's misfortunes
- How Candide was forced to leave lovely Cunegonde and the old woman
- How Candide and Cacambo were greeted by the Jesuits of Paraguay
- How Candide killed his dear Cunegonde's brother
- What happened to the two travelers with two girls, two monkeys, and the savages known as Oreillons
- Arrival of Candide and his valet in the land of Eldorado, and what they saw there
- What they saw in Eldorado
- How they got to Surinam, and how Candide came to know Martin
- What happened at sea to Candide and Martin
- Candide and Martin approach the French coast and argue
- What happened to Candide and Martin in France
- Candide and Martin reach the British coast, and what they see there
- Paquette and Friar Giroflee
- Visit to Lord Pococurante, a nobleman of Venice
- A dinner that Candide and Martin shared with six foreigners, and who they were
- Candide's journey to Constantinople
- What happened to Candide, Cunegonde, Pangloss, Martin, etc.
- How Candide found Cunegonde and the old woman.