Candide, - Or Optimism

With its vibrant new translation, perceptive introduction, and witty packaging, this new edition of Voltaire-s masterpiece belongs in the hands of every reader pondering our assumptions about human behavior and our place in the world. Candide tells of the hilarious adventures of the na- Candide, who doggedly believes that -all is for the best- even when faced with injustice, suffering, and despair. Controversial and entertaining, Candide is a book that is vitally relevant today in our world pervaded by-as Candide would say--the mania for insisting that all is well when all is by no means well.-