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