Candide

by Voltaire

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Original Title: Candide

Author: Voltaire

Genres: Fiction, Tragedy, Satire

Publisher: Madness Serial Publishing

File version: 1.0

Candide is the famous satire and best-known work by Voltaire. First published in 1759, it is the story of its central character who travels throughout Europe and South America, experiencing and witnessing much misfortune on the way.

Within the clever construct of this narrative, Voltaire refutes the philosophy of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, whose central idea was that life was the best of all possible worlds and that disasters should occur, were harbingers of better things to come.

Voltaire found this philosophy insultingly ridiculous, and within the humorous and satirical construct of this work, he effectively exposes the idiocy of a philosophy that was so pervasive in his time.

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