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Honest Man
"Candide", whose full name is "Candide or Optimism", is Voltaire's most famous philosophical novel. This edition adopts Mr. Fu Lei's translation. "Candide" tells a series of encounters of the protagonist, Candide. The protagonist "Candide" initially believed in the optimistic philosophy of his teacher Pangloss, that is, everything in this world is perfect. He was an illegitimate son adopted by a baron. Because he fell in love with the baron's daughter, he was kicked out of the house. From then
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Selected Novels of Voltaire: a Collection of Short Philosophical Stories
Voltaire was a leading figure in the French bourgeois Enlightenment in the eighteenth century and was known as the "King of French Thought." Voltaire was mainly engaged in drama creation throughout his life and wrote more than 50 plays, most of which were tragedies. The most valuable of his literary works are philosophical novels. This is a new genre he created, using a joking tone to tell absurd stories, alluding to and satirizing reality, and elucidating profound philosophies. "Selected Novels
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