Candide by Voltaire

Candide

Voltaire with Sheilah Beckett (Illustrator), Lowell Bair (Translator), André Maurois (Contributor)

129 pages first pub 1759 (editions)

fiction classics philosophy adventurous funny reflective fast-paced
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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 ...

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