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Candide

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3H 52min
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English
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Fiction

Candide is a relentless, brutal assault on government, society, religion, education, and, above all, optimism. Dr. Pangloss teaches his young students Candide and Cunegonde that everything in this world is for the best, a sentiment they cling to as the world steps in to teach them otherwise. The novel is brilliant, hilarious, blasphemous. . . and Voltaire never admitted to writing it.

© 2021 Falcon Press LLC (Audiobook): 9781955263207

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Audiobook: 6 April 2021

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