Candide lives in the best of all possible worlds, or so it seems until he is expelled from his castle for necking with the lovely Cunégonde. Candide is hilarious and naughty romp that urges the reader to consider what happiness really is.
Appeals: Satire, very quick read, funny, irreverent.
If you enjoy satire, you might also enjoy Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift or The History of Rasselas: Prince of Abissinia by Samuel Johnson.
Voltaire. Candide: Or Optimism. 1759. 200 pages.
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