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843.5 VOL
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1992 1961
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0679600035 9780679600039 :
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F VOL
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2016
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Micromegas is an inhabitant of the star Sirius, 120,000 feet tall and accompanied by a dwarf from Saturn, who is 6000 feet tall. During a grand tour of the universe, they visit Earth in 1737 and, using makeshift microscopes, they detect a boating party of tiny human philosophers.
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9781533107763 1533107769
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CD
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CD-SPOKEN F VOL
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1998
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1402570465 :
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F VOL
Publication Date:
1947
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It was the indifferent shrug and callous inertia that this 'optimism' concealed which so angered Voltaire, who found the 'all for the best' approach a patently inadequate response to suffering, to natural disasters - such as the recent earthquakes in Lima and Lisbon - not to mention the questions of illness and man-made war. Moreover, as the rebel whose satiric genius had earned him not only international acclaim, but two stays in the Bastille, flogging and exile, Voltaire knew personally what suffering involved. In Candide he whisks his young hero and friends through a ludicrous variety of tortures, tragedies and reversals of fortune, in the company of Pangloss, a 'metaphysico-theologo-cosmolo-nigologist' of unflinching optimism. The result is one of the glories of eighteenth-century satire.
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0140440046 9780140440041
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