Candide by Voltaire - Feedbooks Edition

Candide, ou l'Optimisme is a French satire written in 1759 by Francois-Marie Arouet - Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. Candide is characterized by its sarcastic tone and its erratic, fantastical, and fast-moving plot. A picaresque novel with a story similar to that of a more serious bildungsroman, it parodies many adventure and romance clichés, the struggles of which are caricatured in a tone that is mordantly matter-of-fact.