Candide

  • Candide: Voltaire
    Candide: Voltaire
    By Voltaire, Francois-Marie Arouet, Philip Littell

    " Candide falls in love with the baron's young daughter, Cunégonde. The baron catches the two kissing and expels Candide from his home. On his own for the first time, Candide is soon conscripted into the army of the Bulgars.

  • Candide
    Candide
    By Voltaire, Diamond Classics

    This edition is based on the unattributed 1918 translation published in the U.S. by Boni & Liveright in 1918.

  • Candide
    Candide
    By Voltaire

    The book also satirized the religious teachings of Rene Descartes and Blaise Pascal, including Pascal's famed "wager" on God. Voltaire wrote: "The interest I have in believing a thing is not a proof of the existence of that thing.

  • Candide
    Candide
    By Voltaire, Philip Littell

    He wrote Letters on England (1733), Zadig; or, The Book of Fate (1747), Candide (1759) and Philosophical Dictionary (1764).

  • Candide: By Voltaire - Illustrated
    By Voltaire

    Still, the events discussed are often based on historical happenings, such as the Seven Years' War and the 1755 Lisbon earthquake.[8] As philosophers of Voltaire's day contended with the problem of evil, so too does Candide in this short ...

  • Candide
    Candide
    By Voltaire, J. W. Hill

    As philosophers of Voltaire's day contended with the problem of evil, so too does Candide in this short novel, albeit more directly and humorously.