Audio only
Length4h 3m
About this audiobook
"Candide" is a satirical novel published in 1759 that is the best-known work by Voltaire. This comedic novel is not only an important work of literature but also one of the top-10 banned books of all time. It is a savage denunciation of metaphysical optimism that reveals a world of horrors and folly.
Voltaire's "Candide", a controversial work counted among the greatest books of European literature, is both accessible to the average reader and certain to make you laugh. "Candide" is all the more remarkable in that its comedy is derived from some of the most tragic characters and situations imaginable.
"Candide" was influenced by various atrocities of the mid-18th century, most notably the devastating Lisbon earthquake of 1755, the outbreak of the horrific Seven Years’ War in the German states, and the unjust execution of the English Admiral John Byng. This philosophical tale is often hailed as a paradigmatic text of the Enlightenment, but it is also an ironic attack on the optimistic beliefs of the Enlightenment. Voltaire’s critique is directed at Leibniz’s principle of sufficient reason, which maintains that nothing can be so without there being a reason why it is so. The consequence of this principle is the belief that the actual world must be the best one humanly possible.
Candide (the name refers to purity and frankness) is the tale’s main character. He embodies the philosophical idea of optimism that Voltaire intends to oppose.
Candide has a series of increasingly bizarre adventures. After being banished from his childhood home, he joins the army, flees the Inquisition, travels to South America, finds the mythical city of El Dorado, and then reunites with his beloved Cunegonde...
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.0 (344.6K)
Includes Goodreads, StoryGraph, LibraryThing, Amazon
GenreHumor, Mystery and Thriller, Literary Classics
Length4 hrs 3 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 16, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1 - How Candide Was Brought Up in a Magnificent Castle and How He Was Driven Thence
2Chapter 2 - What Befell Candide among the Bulgarians
3Chapter 3 - How Candide Escaped from the Bulgarians and What Befell Him Afterward
4Chapter 4 - How Candide Found His Old Master Pangloss Again and What Happened to Him
5Chapter 5 - A Tempest, a Shipwreck, an Earthquake, and What Else Befell Dr. Pangloss, Candide, and James, the Anabaptist
Mostrar todos os capítulosVer menos
6Chapter 6 - How the Portuguese Made a Superb Auto-De-Fe to Prevent Any Future Earthquakes, and How Candide Underwent Public Flagellation
7Chapter 7 - How the Old Woman Took Care Of Candide, and How He Found the Object of His Love
8Chapter 8 - Cunegund's Story
9Chapter 9 - What Happened to Cunegund, Candide, the Grand Inquisitor, and the Jew
10Chapter 10 - In What Distress Candide, Cunegund, and the Old Woman Arrive at Cadiz, and Of Their Embarkation
11Chapter 11 - The History of the Old Woman
12Chapter 12 - The Adventures of the Old Woman Continued
13Chapter 13 - How Candide Was Obliged to Leave the Fair Cunegund and the Old Woman
14Chapter 14 - The Reception Candide and Cacambo Met with among the Jesuits in Paraguay
15Chapter 15 - How Candide Killed the Brother of His Dear Cunegund
16Chapter 16 - What Happened to Our Two Travelers with Two Girls, Two Monkeys, and the Savages, Called Oreillons
17Chapter 17 - What Happened to Our Two Candide and His Valet Arrive in the Country of El Dorado-What They Saw There
18Chapter 18 - What They Saw in the Country of El Dorado
19Chapter 19 - What Happened to Them at Surinam, and How Candide Became Acquainted with Martin
20Chapter 20 - What Befell Candide and Martin on Their Passage
21Chapter 21 - Candide and Martin, While Thus Reasoning with Each Other, DrawNear to the Coast of France
22Chapter 22 - What Happened to Candide and Martin in France
23Chapter 23 - Candide and Martin Touch upon the English Coast-What They See There
24Chapter 24 - Of Pacquette and Friar Giroflee
25Chapter 25 - Candide and Martin Pay a Visit to Seignor Pococurante, a Noble Venetian
26Chapter 26 - Candide and Martin sup with six sharpers - who they were
27Chapter 27 - Candide's Voyage to Constantinople
28Chapter 28 - What Befell Candide, Cunegund, Pangloss, Martin, etc.
29Chapter 29 - What Manner Candide Found Miss Cunegund and the Old Woman Again
30Chapter 30 - Conclusion
More from Voltaire
La HenriadeVoltaire3h 58m3.6 (1.4K)$12 · $0.00
Zadig o el destinoVoltaire2h 44m4.1 (21.1K)$5.80 · $0.00
BrutusVoltaire1h 37m3.6 (38)$12 · $0.00
Letters on EnglandVoltaire4h 2m3.9 (3.6K)$0.60 · $0.00
La princesa de BabiloniaVoltaire2h 48m3.9 (2.6K)$1.20 · $0.00
ZaïreVoltaire1h 48m3.8 (3.1K)$0.60 · $0.00
Philosophical DictionaryVoltaire9h 15m4.2 (4.2K)$1.20 · $0.00
Candide ou l’OptimismeVoltaire3h 33m4.0 (629.6K)$0.70 · $0.00
L'IngénuVoltaire2h 41m3.7 (7.2K)$1.20 · $0.00
Short Works (Annotated)Voltaire6h 50m4.2 (34)$1.20 · $0.00
La Pucelle d'OrléansVoltaire6h 17m3.4 (59)$23 · $0.00
CandideVoltaire2h 8m4.0 (333.8K)$4.60 · $0.00
Trattato sulla tolleranzaVoltaire3h 6m4.4 (2.8K)$9.10 · $0.00
Lost In TranslationAudrey Davis9h 15m4.4 (235)Free
How to Test Negative for StupidJohn Kennedy8h 13m4.7 (9.7K)$28 · $0.00
The Jeeves and Wooster Stories: The Complete Collection (33 Books)P. G. Wodehouse21h 57m4.7 (2.8K)$15 · $0.00
Birdie & HarlowTaylor Wolfe7h 50m4.6 (6.5K)$26 · $0.00
The Life of DaiDai Henwood, Jaquie Brown8h 2m4.6 (790)$26 · $0.00
Welcome to PawneeJim O'Heir6h 24m4.5 (5.3K)$24 · $0.00
Going PostalTerry Pratchett13h 36m4.5 (163.8K)$33 · $0.00
Woman UninterruptedBrodie Kane7h 1m4.6 (562)$24 · $0.00
1984 & Animal Farm (Annotated)George Orwell15h 54m4.5 (220.8K)$3.99 · $0.00
Kingsblood Royal (Annotated)Sinclair Lewis14h 42m4.6 (264)$2 · $0.00
This Is Going to HurtAdam Kay5h 47m4.4 (444.7K)$24 · $0.00
You Will Get Through This NightDaniel Howell6h 56m4.4 (11.8K)$24 · $0.00
Northanger Abbey (Annotated)Jane Austen10h 7m4.5 (1.6K)$2 · $0.00
My Dear HamiltonStephanie Dray, Laura Kamoie23h 7m4.4 (63.6K)$46 · $0.00
THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS & SCREWTAPE PROPOSES A TOAST (Annotated)C. S. Lewis5h 6m4.4 (471K)$2 · $0.00
BufferingHannah Hart5h 55m4.4 (12.4K)$24 · $0.00
The Office BFFsJenna Fischer, Angela Kinsey8h 26m4.3 (45.4K)$26 · $0.00
The Collected Stories of Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker8h 36m4.3 (13.6K)$1 · $0.00
LambChristopher Moore15h 22m4.3 (211.3K)$33 · $0.00
The Importance of Being Earnest (World's Classics Series)Oscar Wilde4h 10m4.3 (467.3K)$1.99 · $0.00
Remarkably Bright CreaturesShelby Van Pelt11h 17m4.4 (1.7M)$29 · $0.00
The New Human Revolution, vol. 1Daisaku Ikeda7h 46m4.7 (669)$12 · $0.00
The ReunionJana Deleon6h 31m4.6 (1.6K)$26 · $0.00
To Hold and ProtectSandra Owens7h 59m4.6 (1.1K)$8 · $0.00
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Complete Edition)Arthur Conan Doyle12h 41m4.6 (286.7K)$1.99 · $0.00
Farewell My Lovely (Annotated)Raymond Chandler10h 37m4.6 (1.2K)$2 · $0.00
The Labyrinth of the SpiritsCarlos Ruiz Zafon27h 55m4.5 (77.2K)$53 · $0.00
Olympic Mountain PursuitJodie Bailey5h 55m4.6 (638)$12 · $0.00
Glen AffricKarine Giebel22h 51m4.5 (3.2K)$46 · $0.00
Deadly Badlands PursuitSharee Stover5h 53m4.6 (361)$12 · $0.00
Crime and Punishment (The Unabridged Garnett Translation) (Annotated)Fyodor Dostoevsky24h 25m4.5 (15.4K)$1.99 · $0.00
AngelAnita Waller10h 30m4.6 (672)$30 · $0.00
The BorderDon Winslow29h 8m4.5 (35.7K)$53 · $0.00
FlashpointCatherine Coulter11h 38m4.5 (11.6K)$29 · $0.00
Tracking Stolen SecretsLaura Scott5h 37m4.5 (2.2K)$12 · $0.00
The Gothic Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated Edition)Edgar Allan Poe21h 5m4.5 (2.9K)$1.99 · $0.00
The Man in the Brown Suit & They Came to BaghdadAgatha Christie15h 43m4.6 (495)$33 · $0.00
Fang Si-Chi's First Love ParadiseYi-Han Lin8h 25m4.5 (4K)$26 · $0.00
The Rose CodeKate Quinn16h 2m4.4 (493.7K)$33 · $0.00
No Woman Left BehindJulie Moffett8h 49m4.5 (3K)$25 · $0.00
Demon CopperheadBarbara Kingsolver21h 3m4.5 (949.4K)$46 · $0.00
To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee12h 18m4.5 (7.4M)$29 · $0.00
These Precious DaysAnn Patchett11h 14m4.5 (45.2K)$29 · $0.00
Pride & Prejudice (Annotated)Jane Austen15h 10m4.7 (13.3K)$2 · $0.00
The Jeeves and Wooster Stories: The Complete Collection (33 Books)P. G. Wodehouse21h 57m4.7 (2.8K)$15 · $0.00
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 3Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn21h 56m4.7 (8.9K)$46 · $0.00
This Side of Paradise - The Original 1920 Edition (Annotated)F. Scott Fitzgerald11h 30m4.6 (1.6K)$2 · $0.00
The Great Gatsby: Original 1925 Edition (An F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic NovelFrancis Scott Fitzgerald4h 45m4.6 (9.3K)$15 · $0.00
TWELFTH NIGHTWilliam Shakespeare, Sidney Lee16h 38m4.6 (2.8K)$1.99 · $0.00
The Complete Histories / History Plays of William Shakespeare (Annotated)William Shakespeare29h 42m4.6 (2.3K)$1.99 · $0.00
Braving the TruthRachel Held Evans11h 31m4.7 (359)$29 · $0.00
The Old Man and the Sea (Annotated)Ernest Hemingway4h 27m4.6 (1.4K)$2 · $0.00
Henry V (The Play, Historical Background and Analysis of the Character in the Play)William Shakespeare, William Hazlitt8h 50m4.6 (1.3K)$1.99 · $0.00
H. P. LOVECRAFT Ultimate Collection: Novellas, Short Stories, Poetry & Essays (Annotated)H. P. Lovecraft12h 28m4.6 (2.3K)$2 · $0.00
Time RegainedMarcel Proust16h 8m4.5 (10.6K)$1.99 · $0.00
The Mis-Education of the NegroCarter Goodwin Woodson4h 32m4.5 (28.4K)$10 · $0.00
TORAH - Bilingual Edition: English/Hebrew (Annotated)Max Margolis, JPS28h 26m4.6 (1K)$2 · $0.00
Betty Crocker picture cooky bookBetty Crocker, Inc. General Mills2h 13m4.5 (6.5K)$1 · $0.00
The Complete Tales of Beatrix PotterBeatrix Potter3h 36m4.5 (75K)$3 · $0.00
Anne of Green GablesL. M. Montgomery11h 1m4.5 (1.2M)$2.30 · $0.00
You may also like
CandideVoltaire3h 41m3.9 (354.1K)$20
The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain9h 22m4.0 (1.4M)$20
CandideVoltaire5h 20m4.0 (351K)$1 · $0.00
Tono-BungayH. G. Wells14h 38m3.9 (12.5K)$27
The Complete Works of Mark Twain: Novels, Short Stories, Memoirs, Travel Books & More (Illustrated)Mark Twain416h 11m4.5 (5.1K)$1.99 · $0.00
PenrodBooth Tarkington6h 21m4.0 (3K)$17
CandideVoltaire Voltaire2h 8m4.0 (354.3K)$3.50 · $0.00
PygmalionGeorge Bernard Shaw3h 44m4.1 (148.4K)$2.30 · $0.00
THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (Illustrated Edition)Mark Twain12h 30m4.0 (1.4M)$1 · $0.00
Tono-BungayH. G. Wells14h 58m3.7 (3.2K)$2.30 · $0.00
Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain11h 14m4.1 (1.4M)$1.80 · $0.00
Mr. Midshipman EasyFrederick Marryat15h 14m3.9 (1.7K)$2.30
The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain11h 11m4.0 (1.4M)$2.30
Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain10h 33m4.0 (1.4M) · 1962Free
My Weirder School #12: Mrs. Lane Is a Pain!Dan Gutman1h 2m4.5 (1.1K)$13 · $0.00
Elmer GantrySinclair Lewis19h 20m4.0 (28.2K)$1 · $0.00
Elmer GantrySinclair Lewis15h 57m4.0 (14.6K)$25
The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain11h 19m4.0 (1.4M)$9 · $0.00
The History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingHenry Fielding37h 14m3.9 (74.8K)$1.20 · $0.00
The Adventures of Roderick RandomTobias Smollett19h 53m3.7 (1.8K)Free