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Author of the critically acclaimed novel "Animal Magnet" -- voted by Goodreads as among the "Best Literary Books of All Time" and "Best Books of the Decade" -- Anderson takes his readers on another epic journey. "Best of All Possible Worlds" continues the saga of Jacques the Anabaptist from the classic "Candide" in the satiric spirit of Voltaire. Anderson's novel begins with the return of Voltaire's Candide to find his beloved tutor, Pangloss, destitute and abandoned on the streets of Leyden, South Holland. Set in the mid-eighteenth century, the story then follows the lives of two brothers, Jakob and Robrecht Onderdonk, leading antithetical lives. At the heart of the novel is Jakob's quest to abandon his life as a sailor at sea for a more edifying life on land. In contrast Robrecht is determined fully to embrace a sinful life at sea. "Best of All Possible Worlds" explores like Voltaire's masterwork, with an air of irreverence and a witty view of the absurd, the universal problem of evil in a world created by a perfect God.
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Voltaire, Candide, Dr. Pangloss, Cunegonde, Jakob Onderdonk, Robrecht Onderdonk, best of all possible worlds, gary anderson, Good and evil, FictionPlaces
Leyden, South Holland, Lisbon, PortugalTimes
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Best of All Possible Worlds: A Novel
2012, WordsworthGreenwich Press
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in English
1470025469 9781470025465
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"Best of All Possible Worlds" revisits Voltaire's "Candide" after the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 and then follows worldwide the lives of two brothers leading antithetical lives.
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