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Candide

Author
Voltaire
Series
Epic Story
Language
French
Length
106 pages
ISBN
9781911495345
Published
9 July 2016
Imprint
Urban Romantics
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  • enlightenment
  • history
  • philosophy
  • humour
  • wit
  • poetry
  • epic
  • romantic
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A young man, Candide, is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism by his mentor, Professor Pangloss. This lifestyle ends abruptly followed by Candide's slow, painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world.

Author

Voltaire (1694–1778) made French prose feel like a blade you could pocket. Candide moves too fast for consolation: earthquake, war, and a garden that is not a philosophy so much as a last useful sentence. The letters, the tales, the long public quarrel with superstition — they share one climate. Ridicule here is not decoration. It is how a mind stays free in a crowded century.

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