• Publication: Candide, ou l'OptimismePublication Record # 584254
• Author: Voltaire
• Date: 1964-00-00
• Publisher: University of London Press
• Pub. Series: Textes français classiques et modernes
• Pages: 128
• Format:
  tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
• Type: CHAPBOOK
• Notes:

  • College edition with text in French, introduction and notes in English. Note by series editor Robert Niklaus: "The editors [of the volumes in this series] have given their readers an accurate text, together with [in the introduction] a synthesis of recent research and criticism in their chosen field of study, and a stimulating expression of personal opinion based upon their own examination of the work concerned.... Notes have been reduced to the minimum needed for the elucidation of the text...."
  • Edited, with introduction and notes, by Lester G. Crocker (whose name is given as L. G. Crocker on the cover and copyright page & as Lester G. Crocker on the title page).
  • Third impression (first impression 1958).

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