Candide

Nicholas Cronks new edition of Candide offers a fresh look at Voltaires most famous literary work. With an updated Introduction and new critical and historiographical essays penned by scholars over the past two decades, Cronk brings to light the most important lesson in Voltaires Candide. . . . [M]ost readers will agree that Cronk has accomplished what so many critical editions fail to do: he has provided readers with short, readable essays from a diversity of disciplines, which inspire further enquirywithout seeking to convey impossibly comprehensive knowledge about Voltaire, Candide, or the Enlightenment.LOGON CONNORS, University of Miami, on the Third EditionThis Norton Critical Edition includes:Robert M. Adamss translation, which renders French intent in English idiom, preserving the novellas provocative humor, accompanied by explanatory annotations for a contemporary audience.An introduction by Nicholas Cronk, about Candides themes and relationship to Enlightenment values.A rich Backgrounds section, newly featuring excerpts from the influential essays of Alexander Pope and John Locke, and including an article by Gillian Pink, written for this edition, about Candides composition.Critical essays exploring Candides style, genre, satire, and position in the globally commercial and colonial 18th century.An updated selected bibliography and, for the first time, a chronology of Voltaires life and times.