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Candide

Candide

Voltaire

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Candide is the picaresque tale of the titular character’s fantastical journey from an insular, idealized life in a picturesque castle through the difficulties and evils of the real world. Satirical, comical, witty, and cutting, Candide was widely banned in its day for containing blasphemous and seditious concepts. Despite that, it survived controversy to become an important book in the Western literary heritage. Today Candide remains a breezy and darkly funny read.

Voltaire, 1694-1778. Candide
PublisherStandard Ebooks
LanguageEnglish
Source
Project GutenbergInternet Archive
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