Candide

About this eBook

Author

Voltaire, 1694-1778

Credits

Produced by Chuck Greif, Fox in the Stars and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

Subject

Optimism -- Fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

19942

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19942

Release Date

November 27, 2006

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Transcriber's Note: — THE MODERN LIBRARY — OF THE WORLD'S BEST BOOKS — CANDIDE BY VOLTAIRE — CANDIDE
2. 2.By VOLTAIRE — INTRODUCTION BY PHILIP LITTELL
3. 3.INTRODUCTION
4. 4.CONTENTS
5. 5.I — HOW CANDIDE WAS BROUGHT UP IN A MAGNIFICENT CASTLE, AND HOW HE WAS EXPELLED THENCE.
6. 6.II — WHAT BECAME OF CANDIDE AMONG THE BULGARIANS.
7. 7.III — HOW CANDIDE MADE HIS ESCAPE FROM THE BULGARIANS, AND WHAT AFTERWARDS BECAME OF HIM.
8. 8.IV — HOW CANDIDE FOUND HIS OLD MASTER PANGLOSS, AND WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM.
9. 9.V — TEMPEST, SHIPWRECK, EARTHQUAKE, AND WHAT BECAME OF DOCTOR PANGLOSS, CANDIDE, AND JAMES THE ANABAPTIST.
10. 10.VI — HOW THE PORTUGUESE MADE A BEAUTIFUL AUTO-DA-FÉ, TO PREVENT ANY FURTHER EARTHQUAKES; AND HOW CANDIDE WAS PUBLICLY WHIPPED.
11. 11.VII — HOW THE OLD WOMAN TOOK CARE OF CANDIDE, AND HOW HE FOUND THE OBJECT HE LOVED.
12. 12.VIII — THE HISTORY OF CUNEGONDE.
13. 13.IX — WHAT BECAME OF CUNEGONDE, CANDIDE, THE GRAND INQUISITOR, AND THE JEW.
14. 14.X — IN WHAT DISTRESS CANDIDE, CUNEGONDE, AND THE OLD WOMAN ARRIVED AT CADIZ; AND OF THEIR EMBARKATION.
15. 15.XI — HISTORY OF THE OLD WOMAN.
16. 16.XII — THE ADVENTURES OF THE OLD WOMAN CONTINUED.
17. 17.XIII — HOW CANDIDE WAS FORCED AWAY FROM HIS FAIR CUNEGONDE AND THE OLD WOMAN.
18. 18.XIV — HOW CANDIDE AND CACAMBO WERE RECEIVED BY THE JESUITS OF PARAGUAY.
19. 19.XV — HOW CANDIDE KILLED THE BROTHER OF HIS DEAR CUNEGONDE.
20. 20.XVI — ADVENTURES OF THE TWO TRAVELLERS, WITH TWO GIRLS, TWO MONKEYS, AND THE SAVAGES CALLED OREILLONS.
21. 21.XVII — ARRIVAL OF CANDIDE AND HIS VALET AT EL DORADO, AND WHAT THEY SAW THERE.
22. 22.XVIII — WHAT THEY SAW IN THE COUNTRY OF EL DORADO.
23. 23.XIX — WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM AT SURINAM AND HOW CANDIDE GOT ACQUAINTED WITH MARTIN.
24. 24.XX — WHAT HAPPENED AT SEA TO CANDIDE AND MARTIN.
25. 25.XXI — CANDIDE AND MARTIN, REASONING, DRAW NEAR THE COAST OF FRANCE.
26. 26.XXII — WHAT HAPPENED IN FRANCE TO CANDIDE AND MARTIN.
27. 27.XXIII — CANDIDE AND MARTIN TOUCHED UPON THE COAST OF ENGLAND, AND WHAT THEY SAW THERE.
28. 28.XXIV — OF PAQUETTE AND FRIAR GIROFLÉE.
29. 29.XXV — THE VISIT TO LORD POCOCURANTE, A NOBLE VENETIAN.
30. 30.XXVI — OF A SUPPER WHICH CANDIDE AND MARTIN TOOK WITH SIX STRANGERS, AND WHO THEY WERE. [34]
31. 31.XXVII — CANDIDE'S VOYAGE TO CONSTANTINOPLE.
32. 32.XXVIII — WHAT HAPPENED TO CANDIDE, CUNEGONDE, PANGLOSS, MARTIN, ETC.
33. 33.XXIX — HOW CANDIDE FOUND CUNEGONDE AND THE OLD WOMAN AGAIN.
34. 34.XXX — THE CONCLUSION.
35. 35.FOOTNOTES: — Typographical errors corrected in text:

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