TY - GEN T1 - Candide and other stories T2 - Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) A1 - Voltaire, 1694-1778 A2 - Pearson, Roger LA - English LA - French PP - Oxford ; New York PB - Oxford University Press YR - 2006 ED - New ed. UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn648259430 AB - Candide is the most famous of Voltaire's 'philosophical tales', in which he combined witty improbabilities with the sanest of good sense. This edition includes four other prose tales - Micromegas, Zadig, The Ing--ecirc--;nu, and The White Bull - and a verse tale based on Chaucer's The Wife of Bath's Tale, : What Pleases the Ladies. - ;'If this is the best of all possible worlds, then what must the others be like?'. Young Candide is tossed on a hilarious tide of misfortune, experiencing the full horror and injustice of this 'best of all possible worlds' - the Old and the New - before finally acc. OP - 301 CN - PQ2075 2006eb SN - 9780191517709 SN - 0191517704 SN - 0192807269 SN - 9780192807267 KW - Voltaire, : 1694-1778 : Translations into English. KW - Voltaire, : 1694-1778 KW - Voltaire. KW - FICTION / General KW - short stories. KW - Short stories KW - Translations KW - Short stories. KW - Nouvelles. ER -