A review by cheshiresnickersnack
Candide by Voltaire

4.0

This was interesting as a satirical travelogue of the 18th century European world. It's also fascinating to find a source work that, directly or indirectly, has influenced many modern novels of fantastic fiction that I greatly enjoy. I believe that Neil Stephenson's baroque novels, Jack Vance's stories of Cugel the Clever, and Terry Prachet's Disc World books all owe a debt to Voltaire's Candide.