18th CenturySatire
Voltaire: Candide
A young man taught that all is for the best meets one disaster after another, and ends by tending his garden.
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15 minutes a day: Harvard Classics readings
Days in Harvard Classics Daily, from the 1930 reading guide to the 1909–10 Harvard Classics, that read this author.
Readings from other works by the same author
- February 10No Fancy for a Plain GentlemanVoltaire, Voltaire’s Letters on the English
- February 20Voltaire Observes the QuakersVoltaire, Voltaire’s Letters on the English
- March 20Apples, Feathers, and CoalsVoltaire, Voltaire’s Letters on the English
- September 4Voltaire CriticizesVoltaire, Voltaire’s Letters on the English
- November 21Bargains in WivesVoltaire, Voltaire’s Letters
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Builds on
Nothing before it: a good place to start.
Leads to
This is one of the top rungs of The Enlightenment.