Voltaire · 1759 · Satire
Young Candide is raised by a philosopher who teaches that this is the best of all possible worlds — then proceeds to experience, in rapid and darkly comic succession, earthquake, war, slavery, shipwreck, and the Inquisition. Voltaire's most savage satire, completed in three days, and still funny.
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