"Nicholas Cronk's new edition of Candide offers a fresh look at Voltaire's most famous literary work. With an updated Introduction and new critical and historiographical essays penned by scholars over the past two decade..."Nicholas Cronk's new edition of Candide offers a fresh look at Voltaire's most famous literary work. With an updated Introduction and new critical and historiographical essays penned by scholars over the past two decades, Cronk brings to light the most important lesson in Voltaire's Candide. . . . [M]ost readers will agree that Cronk has accomplished what so many critical editions fail to do: he has provided readers with short, readable essays from a diversity of disciplines, which inspire further enquiry--without seeking to convey impossibly comprehensive knowledge about Voltaire, Candide, or the Enlightenment." --LOGON CONNORS, University of Miami, on the Third Edition