Candide

After being caught kissing the Baron's daughter Cunegonde, gullible ingeneue Candide is evicted from the castle where he lives to find himself wandering a world awash with disease, injustice and slaughter. Can he reconcile what he sees and experiences with the optimistic philosophy of his mentor Panglos, that they live in 'the best of all possible worlds' and that 'everything is for the best?' Voltaire's classic mordant satire of philosophy, religion, governments, the military, and practically anything else. 128p.