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1) La Chartreuse de Parme

Author

Stendhal

Series

Livre de poche classique volume 851-852

Language

Français

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La Chartreuse de Parme est un roman historique écrit par Stendhal en 1839. Il raconte l'histoire de Fabrice del Dongo, un jeune noble italien qui vit pendant les révolutions napoléoniennes. Il est déterminé à faire carrière dans l'armée et à vivre des aventures passionnantes, mais il est confronté à des obstacles tels que la politique, la guerre et l'amour. Il éprouve des sentiments passionnés pour Clélia Conti, une jeune femme belle...

2) Candide, or, Optimism

Author

Voltaire

Series

Penguin classics volume L4
Barnes and Noble classics
Penguin drop caps

Language

English

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Book, eBook

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It was the indifferent shrug and callous inertia that this 'optimism' concealed which so angered Voltaire, who found the 'all for the best' approach a patently inadequate response to suffering, to natural disasters - such as the recent earthquakes in Lima and Lisbon - not to mention the questions of illness and man-made war. Moreover, as the rebel whose satiric genius had earned him not only international acclaim, but two stays in the Bastille, flogging...