Candide - A Norton Critical Edition

The novella has never been out of print and has been translated into every conceivable language. The text of this Norton Critical Edition remains that of Robert M. Adams's superlative translation, accompanied by explanatory annotations.

This edition also includes: A full introduction by Nicholas Cronk; Five background studies of Enlightenment ideas and themes (by Richard Holmes, Adam Gopnik, W. H. Barber, Haydn Mason and Nicholas Cronk), four of these new to the third edition; Eight critical essays-six of them new to this edition-representing a wide range of approaches to Candide. Contributors include J. G. Weightman, Roger Pearson, Dennis Fletcher, Robin Howells, James J. Lynch, Philip Stewart, Erich Auerbach and Jean Starobinski. A revised and expanded Selected Bibliography is also included.

About the author

Nicholas Cronk is Director of the Voltaire Foundation, Professor of French Literature, and Lecturer in the History of the Book at Oxford University. He is General Editor of the Complete Works of Voltaire as well as editor or co-editor of many publications. His current research project is Voltaire's Radical Enlightenment: Editing and Re-Interpreting the Lettres sur les Anglais, for which he has been awarded an Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship (2015—17).

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Cronk, Voltaire, Voltaire Voltaire
• Assisted by: Nicholas Cronk (Editor), Nicholas (Oxford University) Cronk (Editor), Cronk Nicholas (Editor)
• Publisher: Norton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.09.2021
• EAN: 9780393932522
• ISBN: 978-0-393-93252-2
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 209 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 244 g
• Series: Norton Critical Editions; Norton Critical Editions
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; French, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form