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    Candide

    by Voltaire ...
    Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours

    After being expelled from a sheltered paradise, the naively optimistic Candide endures a catastrophic globetrotting journey of war, shipwreck, and catastrophe that hilariously dismantles the belief that “all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.” ... Read more

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    Cloudy with a Chance of Starships

    How the Drake Equation Reveals the Odds of Life in the Cosmos

    by Seven Rasmussen ...
    Narrated by Katherine Littrell ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 6 min

    An entertaining tour of the seemingly simple formula guiding the search for extraterrestrial intelligenceCloudy with a Chance of Starships takes listeners on an irreverent expedition through the marvelous world of astrobiology, using as a guide the most important equation in science since E=mc2. With an irresistible blend of wit, insight, and the latest cutting-edge research, Seven Rasmussen looks ... Read more

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  • The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (Golden Deer Classics)

    [51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction]

    by Charles W. Eliot, Golden Deer Classics, John Milton, Plato, Benjamin Franklin, Adam Smith, Charles Darwin, Miguel de Cervantes, Virgil, Anonymous, Grimm Brothers, Hans Christian Andersen, Oliver Goldsmith, Dante Alighieri, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Molière, Michel de Montaigne, Voltaire, Niccolò Machiavelli, Confucius, William Shakespeare ...
    Contents: Compiled and Edited by Charles W. Eliot LL D in 1909, the Harvard Classics is a 51-volume Anthology of classic literature from throughout the history of western civilization. The set is sometimes called "Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf." This e-book is all 51 volumes, the equivalent of over 20,000 printed pages in one e-book. It is fully searchable with a completely linked table of contents. + - ... Read more

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  • Candide

    by Voltaire ...
    “What a chain of shocking accidents!” exclaimed Candide. “But, after all I still have some diamonds left, with which I can easily buy Miss Cunégonde’s liberty. It is a pity, though, she is grown so very ugly.”Eternal optimist Candide goes on a journey around the world only to discover that he does not live in the best of all possible worlds. Thrown out of his home for daring to kiss the baron’s ... Read more

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  • The Harvard Classics & Fiction Collection [180 Books]

    by Charles W. Eliot, Golden Deer Classics, John Milton, Plato, Benjamin Franklin, Adam Smith, Charles Darwin, Miguel de Cervantes, Virgil, Anonymous, Grimm Brothers, Hans Christian Andersen, Oliver Goldsmith, Dante Alighieri, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Molière, Michel de Montaigne, Voltaire, Niccolò Machiavelli, Confucius, William Shakespeare, Eireann Press ...
    Compiled and Edited by Charles W. Eliot LL D in 1909, the Harvard Classics is a 51-volume Anthology of classic literature from throughout the history of western civilization. The set is sometimes called "Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf." This e-book is all 51 volumes, the equivalent of over 20,000 printed pages in one e-book. It is fully searchable with a completely linked table of contents. ... Read more

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  • Candide

    (Annotated)

    by Voltaire ...
    Includes the prologue “If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?” by the editor.This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!"Candide" is an accessible masterpiece which demonstrated to the world Volatire's genius as a satirist. The eponymous Candide is a young man tutored by an optimist who is convinced ... Read more

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  • Candide

    by Voltaire ...
    Candide or Optimism was written by Voltaire and first published in 1759. Political satire doesn't age well, but occasionally a diatribe contains enough art and universal mirth to survive long after its timeliness has passed. Candide is such a book. Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Candide is steeped in the political and philosophical controversies of the 1750s. But ... Read more

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  • Swift Programming For Beginners: The Ultimate Step-By-Step Guide To Mastering Swift And SwiftUI To Create Apps For MacOS, iOS, And Beyond (iOS Programming & iOS Development)

    by Voltaire Lumiere ...
    Swift Programming For Beginners: The Ultimate Step-By-Step Guide To Mastering Swift And SwiftUI To Create Apps For MacOS, iOS, And Beyond (iOS Programming & iOS Development)In brief:Written from the standpoint of a beginner, Swift Programming For Beginners is a how-to manual for creating iOS apps using the Swift programming language.This user-friendly, comprehensively illustrated manual walks you ... Read more

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  • Candide - Voltaire

    by Voltaire ...
    Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the philosophical optimism that proclaims that all disaster and human suffering is part of a benevolent ... Read more

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  • 50 Great Love Letters You Have To Read (Golden Deer Classics)

    by Ludwig van Bethoveen, Oscar Wilde, Emma Darwin, Vita Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf, Honoré de Balzac, Napoléon Bonaparte, John Keats, Lord Byron, Voltaire, Henri VIII, Leo Tolstoy, Gustave Flaubert, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jack London, Johann Von Goethe, James Joyce, Abigail Adams, Sullivan Ballou, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Pietro Bembo, Charlotte Brontë, Lewis Carroll, Catherine Of Aragon, Mark Twain, John Constable, Oliver Cromwell, Ninon De L'Enclos, Alfred de Musset, Zelda Fitzgerald, Mary Wollstonecraft, Heloise, Count Gabriel Honore De Mirbeau, Lyman Hodge, King Henry IV, Franz Liszt, Katherine Mansfield, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Thomas Otway, Ovid, Robert Schumann, Vincent Van Gogh, Tsarina Alexandra, Laura Lyttleton ...
    If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter speaks a thousand more . . . Even in this age of e-mail, faxes, and instant messaging, nothing has ever replaced the power of a love letter. Love letters express the spectrum of our emotions, offering a colorful glimpse into the soul of the writer, and of the writer's beloved. For passionate readers and lovers of words, a letter is irresistible. ... Read more

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  • Candide

    by Voltaire ...
    "Candide" is a satirical novel published in 1759 that is the best-known work by Voltaire. This comedic novel is not only an important work of literature but also one of the top-10 banned books of all time. It is a savage denunciation of metaphysical optimism that reveals a world of horrors and folly.Voltaire's "Candide", a controversial work counted among the greatest books of European literature, ... Read more

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  • The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes: The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction: The Famous Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature

    by Charles Darwin, John Milton, Molière, Anonymous, Plato, Adam Smith, Francis Bacon, Aesop, Oliver Goldsmith, Epictetus, Benjamin Franklin, Confucius, Virgil, Christopher Marlowe, Marcus Aurelius, Thomas Carlyle, Saint Augustine, Aristophanes, William Shakespeare, Aeschylus, Euripides, Tacitus, Sophocles, Plutarch, Dante Alighieri, Edmund Burke, Cicero, John Dryden, Grimm Brothers, Robert Burns, William Penn, Izaak Walton, Thomas Browne, Charles Eliot, Lord Byron, . Homer, . Voltaire, John Woolman, Jane Austen, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Washington Irving, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas á Kempis, Pliny the Younger, Miguel Cervantes De Saavedra, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, Alessandro Manzoni, Richard Henry Dana Jr, John Stuart Mill, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich von Schiller, Michael Faraday, Hermann von Helmholtz, Lord Kelvin, Simon Newcomb, Sir Archibald Geikie, Benvenuto Cellini, Michel de Montaigne, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Ernest Renan, Immanuel Kant, Giuseppe Mazzini, Herodotus, Philiip Nichols, Francis Pretty, Walter Bigges, Edward Haies, Walter Raleigh, Thomas Hobbes, Jean Froissart, Sir Thomas Malory, William Harrison, Niccolò Machiavelli, William Roper, Sir Thomas More, Martin Luther, John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume, Hippocrates, Ambroise Paré, William Harvey, Edward Jenner, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, Charles Lyell, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, John Webster, Philip Massinger, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Sir Walter Scott, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, Edgar Allan Poe, Francis Bret Harte, Samuel L. Clemens, Edward Everett Hale, Henry James, Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac, George Sand, Alfred de Musset, Alphonse Daudet, Guy de Maupassant, Gottfried Keller, Theodor Storm, Theodor Fontane, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Juan Valera, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Alexander L. Kielland, Charles Dickens, Hans Christian Andersen, Leo Tolstoy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Bunyan, René Descartes, Thomas Malory, Christian, Blaise Pascal, Ivan Turgenev ...
    The original Harvard Classics Collection contains 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original collection is supplemented with the 20 volume Harvard Shelf of Fiction, a selection of the greatest works of fiction.Content:The Harvard Classics:V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & PennV. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus ... Read more

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