Candide and Other Stories
by Voltaire
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Fiction | Fiction | 843.5 V899C 1966 (Browse shelf) | Available | 2683 |
Includes Bibliographical Note
The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle, followed by Candide's slow, painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. Voltaire concludes with Candide, if not rejecting optimism outright, advocating a deeply practical precept, "we must cultivate our garden", in lieu of the Leibnizian mantra of Pangloss, "all is for the best" in the "best of all possible worlds.
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