A naive young man stumbles through disasters while his tutor insists this is the best of all possible worlds.
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Written in three days, banned across Europe, and still funny after 265 years — Voltaire's Candide is the original satirical gut-punch.
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HOW CANDIDE WAS BROUGHT UP IN A MAGNIFICENT CASTLE, AND HOW HE WAS EXPELLED THENCE. In a castle of Westphalia, belonging to the Baron of Thunder-ten-Tronckh, lived a youth, whom nature had endowed with the most gentle manners. His countenance was a true…
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