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Candide : Or Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Francois Voltaire is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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<b>"All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds"</b><br> <br>It was the indifferent shrug and callous inertia that this "optimism" concealed which so angered Voltaire, who found the "all for the best" approach a patently inadequate response to suffering, to natural disasters, not to mention the questions of illness and man-made war. Moreover, as the rebel whose satiric genius had earned him not only international acclaim, but two stays in the Bastille, flogging, and exile, Voltaire kn
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- Author
- Francois Voltaire
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Published
- 1947
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780486266893
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Romance, Children'S
- Rating
- 3.76 / 5 (1,841 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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