Candide (Hardcover Library Edition)

Considered by many to be one of the greatest achievements of Western literature. Candide Voltaire's magnum opus is a matchless satirical take-down of religion theologians governments armies philosophies and philosophers. The novella unfolds as the sheltered and privileged Candide a young man enraptured of his facile mentor Pangloss experiences the hardships and injustices of life forcing him to abandon the naïve notion that all is for the best in favor of a practical determination that life is best lived cultivating one's garden. Considered by many to be one of the greatest achievements of Western literature.