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Candide

by Voltaire

First published: 1759
Pages: 135

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Chapter 00
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Chapter 01
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Chapter 02
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Chapter 03
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Chapter 04
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Chapter 05
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Chapter 06
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Chapter 07
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Chapter 08
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Chapter 09
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Chapter 10
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Chapter 11
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Chapter 12
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Chapter 13
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Chapter 14
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Chapter 15
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Chapter 16
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Chapter 17
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Chapter 18
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Chapter 19
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Chapter 20
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Chapter 21
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Chapter 22
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Chapter 23
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Chapter 24
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Chapter 25
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Chapter 26
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Chapter 27
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Chapter 28
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Chapter 29
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Chapter 30
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First published in 1759, this short, savage satire follows the guileless Candide, raised to believe, on the authority of his tutor Pangloss, that he lives in the best of all possible worlds. Expelled from his sheltered home, he is thrown into war, the Lisbon earthquake, the Inquisition, shipwreck, and betrayal, meeting misery at nearly every turn. Voltaire uses the runaway plot to demolish the fashionable optimism of his day and to mock cruelty, greed, and religious hypocrisy wherever he finds them. After chasing fortune and his beloved Cunegonde across continents, Candide settles on a plainer wisdom: that we must cultivate our own garden. Quick, funny, and merciless, it remains the sharpest of philosophical tales. Free PDF and EPUB edition available.

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Voltaire

Voltaire (1694-1778), pen name of Francois-Marie Arouet, was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher, and polemicist. Celebrated for his wit and his campaigns against tyranny and religious intolerance, he produced plays, histories, essays, and tales, of which Candide remains the most widely read.