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Candide

by Voltaire

Humor
163 pages
3h 24m read

Candide is the picaresque tale of the titular character’s fantastical journey from an insular, idealized life in a picturesque castle through the difficulties and evils of the real world. Satirical, comical, witty, and cutting, Candide was widely banned in its day for containing blasphemous and seditious concepts. Despite that, it survived controversy to become an important book in the Western literary heritage. Today Candide remains a breezy and darkly funny read.

Chapters

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I: How Candide Was Brought Up in a Magnificent Castle, and How He Was Expelled Thence4 pages
II: What Became of Candide Among the Bulgarians4 pages
III: How Candide Made His Escape from the Bulgarians, and What Afterwards Became of Him3 pages
IV: How Candide Found His Old Master Pangloss, and What Happened to Them5 pages
V: Tempest, Shipwreck, Earthquake, and What Became of Doctor Pangloss, Candide, and James the Anabaptist4 pages
VI: How the Portuguese Made a Beautiful Auto-Da-Fé, to Prevent Any Further Earthquakes; and How Candide Was Publicly Whipped2 pages
VII: How the Old Woman Took Care of Candide, and How He Found the Object He Loved3 pages
VIII: The History of Cunégonde5 pages
IX: What Became of Cunégonde, Candide, the Grand Inquisitor, and the Jew3 pages
X: In What Distress Candide, Cunégonde, and the Old Woman Arrived at Cadiz; and of Their Embarkation3 pages
XI: History of the Old Woman5 pages
XII: The Adventures of the Old Woman Continued6 pages
XIII: How Candide Was Forced Away from His Fair Cunégonde and the Old Woman4 pages
XIV: How Candide and Cacambo Were Received by the Jesuits of Paraguay5 pages
XV: How Candide Killed the Brother of His Dear Cunégonde3 pages
XVI: Adventures of the Two Travellers, with Two Girls, Two Monkeys, and the Savages Called Oreillons5 pages
XVII: Arrival of Candide and His Valet at El Dorado, and What They Saw There5 pages
XVIII: What They Saw in the Country of El Dorado8 pages
XIX: What Happened to Them at Surinam and How Candide Got Acquainted with Martin7 pages
XX: What Happened at Sea to Candide and Martin4 pages
XXI: Candide and Martin, Reasoning, Draw Near the Coast of France3 pages
XXII: What Happened in France to Candide and Martin14 pages
XXIII: Candide and Martin Touched Upon the Coast of England, and What They Saw There2 pages
XXIV: Of Paquette and Friar Giroflée7 pages
XXV: The Visit to Lord Pococurante, a Noble Venetian8 pages
XXVI: Of a Supper Which Candide and Martin Took with Six Strangers, and Who They Were5 pages
XXVII: Candide’s Voyage to Constantinople6 pages
XXVIII: What Happened to Candide, Cunégonde, Pangloss, Martin, etc.4 pages
XXIX: How Candide Found Cunégonde and the Old Woman Again2 pages
XXX: The Conclusion7 pages

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