TY - GEN T1 - Candide, or, Optimism A1 - Voltaire, 1694-1778 A2 - Raffel, Burton LA - English LA - French PP - New Haven PB - Yale University Press YR - 2005 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn123082485 AB - "In this new translation of Voltaire's Candide, distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the French novel's irreverent spirit and offers a vivid, contemporary version of the 250-year-old text. Raffel casts the novel in an English idiom that - had Voltaire been a twenty-first-century American - he might himself have employed. The translation is immediate and unencumbered, and for the first time makes Voltaire the satirist a wicked pleasure for English-speaking readers."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved OP - 132 NO - "Translated from the German of Dr. Ralph with additions found in the doctor's pocket when he died, at Minden, in the yar of our Lord 1759." CN - PQ2082.C3 E5 2005beb SN - 9780300127782 SN - 0300127782 SN - 9780300106558 SN - 0300106556 SN - 1281729698 SN - 9781281729699 SN - 9786611729691 SN - 6611729690 KW - Voltaire, : 1694-1778. KW - Voltaire, : 1694-1778 KW - French literature : 18th century. KW - Satire, French : 18th century. KW - Littérature française : 18e siècle. KW - Satire française : 18e siècle. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : General. KW - French literature KW - Satire, French KW - Teachers : Fiction. KW - 1700-1799 KW - Fictional Work KW - Satire KW - Fiction KW - Fiction. KW - Romans. ER -