Candide is told that this is the best of all possible worlds. His encounters with war, disaster and cruelty keep testing that idea. Voltaire’s short satire gives you a brisk starting point for the collection and plenty to question.
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A proposed A5 hardcover of Candide. Final print proof pending.
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Proposed total: $50 including $6 shipping
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The proposed hardcover gives Candide a place in your own collection. This is the print specification we are working toward. Final page counts and print proofs are pending.
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Delivery countries and dispatch estimates will be confirmed before orders open. The images show the intended covers; they are illustrations of the proposed editions.
Print-on-demand through Lulu is planned. Final proofs are still to be approved.
Download the free reading companion sample for a first look at the collection’s approach. The source-edition link below also lets you read the book free.
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Read the free companion sampleCandide appears in historical banned-book collections. Voltaire directs his satire at dogmatic optimism, violence, religious authority and political power. Read the story with an eye on what each explanation leaves out.
Read the free source editionChoose Candide if you want a shorter starting point. Follow what happens to Candide, then compare it with Pangloss’s explanations. The gap is where much of the satire lives.
Mark a passage you want to question or return to. Bring it to a conversation with another reader. Your reading can change as you spend more time with the book.
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Explore Joyce, Lawrence, Hall, Voltaire and Machiavelli. Each book gives you a different starting point for thinking about desire, belonging or power.
The five-book hardcover collection is proposed at $99 plus $6 shipping. Proposed total: $105.
Explore all five books $99 proposedThis collection contains five different books. A single title’s all-format bundle contains that one book in three formats. Orders are closed.
Orders are closed while the editions are in preparation. You can explore the proposed formats and prices, download the free companion sample, and follow the source-edition link to read the book free.
The e-book is proposed as EPUB and PDF for $9. The hardcover is proposed at $44 plus $6 shipping. An audiobook is in preparation at a proposed $14. The $49 all-format bundle would include this same title as an e-book, audiobook and hardcover, plus $6 shipping. All prices are proposed.
The 2-page PDF gives you starting tips for all five books. It includes the companion’s cover and a guide to choosing your first title. For the book’s full text, follow the free source-edition link above.
Final print proofs and page counts are pending. The images are illustrative. Eligible delivery countries, dispatch estimates and the final shipping terms will be published before orders open.
The collection brings together books with histories of censorship and controversy. Those histories give you context for reading. Edition and translation rights must be confirmed for each destination before sales open.
James Joyce
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D. H. Lawrence
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Radclyffe Hall
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Niccolò Machiavelli
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