Candide: A Kaplan French-Language Vocabulary Building Novel

This book is not good as a learning tool, it only gives 1 or 2 words of translation per page.

I bought this book because it purported to define the "tough" words. I found that most of the defined words were ones I already knew, while a large number of the "tough" words went unnoticed. For instance: on the first page, "puissant" is defined, while "palefreniers" is not; page one of chapter 6 has 9 words defined (most were cognates) but no clue is given as to what the "auto-da-fe" mentioned on the same page might be. I could go on, but you get the picture. I would still read the book, but would recommend that one keep one's Larousse handy as the obscure vocabulary is hefty. I would not buy this edition for the vocab list as advertised; however, the unused space on the left side could be used by readers to add their own definitions.

I liked this vocabulary builder idea more than the dual language books.

When reading the dual language books, i find myself reading every line translated, this one, even i if don't completely understand everything
it is much more fun to read. and you get to learn the important words that you don't know cause on other side there is like a small dicto for more difficult words.

also the book is very interesting.