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by
Voltaire
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Candide: or, All for the Best, The Optimist or Optimism begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply "optimism") by his mentor, Professor Pangloss. The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle,...