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Candide, or The Optimist

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01 October 2020
176 pages
9781529021080
Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library

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Candide remains politically topical and its McCarthy-era satire has, unfortunately, lost little relevance
It was no fable inhabiting some make-believe or symbolic location; rather, it was a report on the current state of the world, deliberately set among the headlines of the day