Candide And Other Stories: Introduced By Roger Pearson (Everyman'S Library Classics Series),New Jean Ekman Focusing Particularly On Anglican Engagement

Focusing Particularly On Anglican Engagement With The Roman Catholic And Protestant Traditions

And For All The Ages That Have Yet To Come

After Years Of Traveling More Than 200 Days A Year

The Novel Balances A Vast Cast Of Intricately Enmeshed Characters As They React Over The Course Of Three Tense Days In September 1943 To A Racial Incident On A U

Candide And Other Stories: Introduced By Roger Pearson (Everyman'S Library Classics Series),New Jean Ekman Focusing Particularly On Anglican EngagementCandide Is The Story Of A Gentle Man Who, Though Pummeled And Slapped In Every Direction By Fate, Clings Desperately To The Belief That He Lives In 'The Best Of All Possible Worlds.' On The Surface A Witty, Bantering Tale, This Eighteenthcentury Classic Is Actually A Savage, Satiric Thrust At The Philosophical Optimism That Proclaims That All Disaster And Human Suffering Is Part Of A Benevolent Cosmic Plan. Fast, Funny, Often Outrageous, The French