Author: Voltaire
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141961058
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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One of Voltaire's earliest tales, Zadig is set in the exotic East and is told in the comic spirit of Candide; L'Ingenu, written after Candide, is a darker tale in which an American Indian records his impressions of France
Author: Voltaire
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0140441263
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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One of Voltaire's earliest tales, Zadig is set in the exotic East and is told in the comic spirit of Candide; L'Ingenu, written after Candide, is a darker tale in which an American Indian records his impressions of France
Author: Robin Howells
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004650261
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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This is a reading of the Romans et Contes of Voltaire in the light of Bakhtin's concept of the Carnivalesque. Part I of this study establishes a paradigm for the twenty-six Contes. It focuses on generic patterns and a thematics of disablement. Part II offers carnivalesque readings of two tales, Le Monde comme il va and Candide. The last Part considers successively six of the later Contes, including L'Ingénu and Jenni, and the historical changes in consciousness that they reflect. The shift towards bourgeois realism is evident in the rise of sentiment and the patriarchal family on the one hand, materialism on the other. These tales exhibit an increasingly deep ambivalence towards corporality. In conclusion the study traces the changing forms of the carnivalesque figure, from geometrical to vitalist, within the Contes as a whole.
Author: Marino Alvarez
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 1780921225
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 175
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The uniqueness of this book is the essays and activities that include both serious and farcical writings about Arthu Conan Doyle's, Sherlock Holmes. A travelogue that compares Reichenbach Falls and Trummelbach Falls for Professor Moriarty's demise; and notes from a visit to Trinity College at Oxford to view Monsignor Knox's writings and entries in the Gryphon Club Book provide the reader with engaging insights into Sherlock Holmes' world of scholarship.
Author: Will Durant
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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Author: Stefania Buccini
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271041196
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Author: Bessie Graham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Author: Francois Voltaire
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101549742
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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"All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds" It was the indifferent shrug and callous inertia that this "optimism" concealed which so angered Voltaire, who found the "all for the best" approach a patently inadequate response to suffering, to natural disasters, not to mention the questions of illness and man-made war. Moreover, as the rebel whose satiric genius had earned him not only international acclaim, but two stays in the Bastille, flogging, and exile, Voltaire knew personally what suffering entailed. In Candide he whisks his young hero and friends through a ludicrous variety of tortures, tragedies, and a reversal of fortune, in the company of Pangloss, a "metaphysico-theologo-comolo-nigologist" of unflinching optimism. The result is one of the glories of eighteenth-century satire. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Author: Bessie Graham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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