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- ISBN 9781324059592
- Weight: 275g
- Dimensions: 130 x 213mm
- Publication Date: 13 Mar 2026
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This Norton Critical Edition includes:
Robert M. Adams’s translation, which renders French intent in English idiom, preserving the novella’s provocative humor, accompanied by explanatory annotations for a contemporary audience.
An introduction by Nicholas Cronk, about Candide’s 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 Candide’s composition.
Critical essays exploring Candide’s 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 Voltaire’s life and times.
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).
