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Candide by Voltaire ill. Quentin Blake

In 2011, The Folio Society produced a limited edition of Voltaire’s Candide. Featuring illustrations by Quentin Blake and an introduction by Julian Barnes, it proved to be enormously popular and became one of the fastest-selling titles in Folio history. In response to overwhelming demand, Candide was reissued in a new format, so that more readers could experience this uniquely pleasing combination of author and illustrator.

Of Voltaire’s many works, the most popular today is Candide: the most widely taught piece of French literature in the world. This mordant novella has not one but a dozen targets for its satire: organised religion, the overweening pride of aristocrats, merchants’ greed, colonial ambition and the hopeless complacency of Leibnizian philosophy in the face of reality. All are dissected with a few sharp strokes of Voltaire’s pen.

Features;

• Folio Society New Edition First Impression
• Publisher Folio Society, London; 2016
• Grey Cloth Hardback, 203 pp
• Frontispiece and 17 colour, and 28 b/w illustrations by Quentin Blake
• Size 260 x 190mm, 1.2kg

Condition: Fine – Superb Unmarked Copy

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