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Candide: Or, Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Francois Voltaire, Michael (Introduction By) Wood, Theo Cuffe (Translator), Chris Ware (Illustrator), Theo Cuffe Voltaire Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2005 ISBN-10: 0-14-303942-3 / 0143039423 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-303942-6 / 9780143039426 Political satire doesn't age well, but occasionally a diatribe contains enough art and universal mirth to survive long after its timeliness has passed. Candide is such a book. Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Candide is steeped in the political and philosophical controv |