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Summary

Pangloss would have been right at home in a post-truth, social media world. You can imagine the tweets, “I was hanged and survived #soggyrope,” or, “#nosyphilisnochocolate.” Candide, written in 1759, was never more relevant than today. Blind obeisance and denial, barbarous villainy, greed, and rapacity, are all in a day’s toil for the young Candide. And this is in the best of all possible worlds!

Duration: about 4 hours (03:41:07)
Publishing date: 2024-06-04; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —

• Contemporary Fiction
• Classics
• Humor