MacbethYale University Press, 01.01.2005 - 210 Seiten In this new translation of Voltaire's Candide, distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the French novel's irreverent spirit and offers a vivid, contemporary version of the 250-year-old text. Raffel re-creates Voltaire's stylistic brilliance by casting the novel into an English idiom that, had Voltaire been a twenty-first-century American, he might himself have employed. The translation is immediate and unencumbered, and for the first time makes Voltaire the satirist a wicked pleasure for English-speaking readers. Candide recounts the fantastically improbable travels, adventures, and misfortunes of the young Candide, his beloved Cungegonde, and his devoutly optimistic tutor Pangloss. Endowed at the start with good fortune and every prospect for happiness and success, the characters nevertheless encounter every conceivable misfortune. Voltaire's philosophical tale, in part an ironic attack on the optimistic thinking of such figures as Gottfried Leibniz and Alexander Pope, has proved enormously influential over the years. In a general introduction to this volume, historian Johnson Kent Wright places Candide in the contexts of Voltaire's life and work and the Age of Enlightenment. |
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... Thane of Cawdor . / The greatest is be- hind ” ( 1.3.116‒117 ) . The implication is starkly plain : Macbeth intends , and has intended , to do still more by way of advancing himself . Less plain , perhaps , is the fact that what must ...
... Thane of Cawdor . / The greatest is be- hind ” ( 1.3.116‒117 ) . The implication is starkly plain : Macbeth intends , and has intended , to do still more by way of advancing himself . Less plain , perhaps , is the fact that what must ...
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... Thane of Cawdor “ signs of nobleness . . . And bind us [ me ] further to you ” ( 1.4.41‒43 ) , Macbeth's reply cannot help but be chilling to an audience that has just a moment before been privy to the new Thane of Cawdor's murderous ...
... Thane of Cawdor “ signs of nobleness . . . And bind us [ me ] further to you ” ( 1.4.41‒43 ) , Macbeth's reply cannot help but be chilling to an audience that has just a moment before been privy to the new Thane of Cawdor's murderous ...
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... Thane of Cawdor “ was a gentleman on whom I built / An absolute trust ” ( 1.4.13–14 ) , opens scene 6 by happily declaiming , “ This castle hath a pleasant seat . The air / Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself ” ( 1.6.1–2 ) . Banquo ...
... Thane of Cawdor “ was a gentleman on whom I built / An absolute trust ” ( 1.4.13–14 ) , opens scene 6 by happily declaiming , “ This castle hath a pleasant seat . The air / Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself ” ( 1.6.1–2 ) . Banquo ...
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... Thane? Ross great king , From Fife , " Where the. 54 overloaded 55 roars (i.e., that which makes a cannon roar: gunpowder) 56 Macbeth and Banquo 57 SO they DOUbly reDOUBled STROKES upON the FOE 58 whether 59 steaming (freshly made) 60 ...
... Thane? Ross great king , From Fife , " Where the. 54 overloaded 55 roars (i.e., that which makes a cannon roar: gunpowder) 56 Macbeth and Banquo 57 SO they DOUbly reDOUBled STROKES upON the FOE 58 whether 59 steaming (freshly made) 60 ...
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... Thane of Cawdor , began a dismal75 conflict , Till that76 Bellona's bridegroom , 77 lapped in proof , 78 Confronted him with self comparisons , 79 80 Point against point , rebellious arm ' gainst arm , " Curbing81 his lavish82 spirit ...
... Thane of Cawdor , began a dismal75 conflict , Till that76 Bellona's bridegroom , 77 lapped in proof , 78 Confronted him with self comparisons , 79 80 Point against point , rebellious arm ' gainst arm , " Curbing81 his lavish82 spirit ...
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