VOLTAIRE 




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Candide 

by Voltaire (1694-1778) 


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. 


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Total running time: 4:04:49 
Read by Ted Delorme 

Cover design by Kathryn Delaney 
Frontispiece and first page of an early English 
translation by T. Smollett et al of "Candide", 
printed by J. Newbery, 1762 


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