# Candide, or Optimism

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- Book: [Candide, or Optimism](https://www.bookquiver.com/voltaire/candide-or-optimism) ([Candide, or Optimism.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/voltaire/candide-or-optimism.md))
- Authors: [Voltaire](https://www.bookquiver.com/voltaire)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4045-510-6
- Pages: 208
- Published: 2006-05-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Brought up in the household of a powerful Baron, Candide is an open-minded young man, whose tutor, Pangloss, has instilled in him the belief that 'all is for the best'. But when his love for the Baron's rosy-cheeked daughter is discovered, Candide is cast out to make his own way in the world. And so he and his various companions begin a breathless tour of Europe, South America and Asia, as an outrageous series of disasters befall them - earthquakes, syphilis, a brush with the Inquisition, murder - sorely testing the young hero's optimism.