Candide (version 2)
by Voltaire
Chapter 1 of 31 Chapter 00
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- Running time
- 4 h 5 min
- Language
- English
- Read by
- Ted Delorme
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About this recording
Candide is a relentless, brutal assault on government, society, religion, education, and, above all, optimism. Dr. Pangloss teaches his young students Candide and Cunegonde that everything in this world is for the best, a sentiment they cling to as the world steps in to teach them otherwise. The novel is brilliant, hilarious, blasphemous. . . and Voltaire never admitted to writing it.
