Candide. English
| dc.contributor | Eris, Project |
| dc.contributor.author | Voltaire, 1694-1778 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T10:01:44Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T10:01:44Z |
| dc.date.created | 1759 |
| dc.date.issued | 1994-01-14 |
| dc.identifier | ota:2027 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/2027 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/2027 |
| dc.description.abstract | Project Eris is a major gopher-based collection of world classics in English, compiled by Virginia Tech, but now defunct at that website |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
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| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Fiction |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Novels |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Translations |
| dc.title | Candide. English |
| dc.type | Text |
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| identifier.ee | Voltaire, 1694-1778 http://dx.doi.org/10.13051/ee:bio/voltaire00023873 |
| identifier.lccn | Voltaire, 1694-1778 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126267 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1700-1799 |
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1759
CANDIDE
by Voltaire
CHAPTER 1
How Candide Was Brought Up in a Magnificent Castle and How He Was
Driven Thence
In the country of Westphalia, in the castle of the most noble
Baron of Thunder-ten-tronckh, lived a youth whom Nature had endowed
with a most sweet disposition. His face was the true index of his
mind. He had a solid judgment joined to the most unaffected
simplicity; and hence, I presume, he had his name of Candide. The
old servants of the house suspected him to have been the son of the
Baron's sister, by a very good sort of a gentleman of the
neighborhood, whom that young lady refused to marry, because he
could produce no more than threescore and eleven quarterings in his
arms; the rest of the genealogical tree belonging to the family having
been lost through the injuries of time.
The Baron was one of the most powerful lords in Westphalia, for
his castl . . .
