http://www.vigobooks.com Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 06 Apr 2014 16:01:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 http://www.vigobooks.com/classics/world-literature/candide/ http://www.vigobooks.com/classics/world-literature/candide/#comments Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:01:56 +0000 http://www.vigobooks.com/?p=1212 Inspired by the Seven Years’ War and the Lisbon earthquake of 1755, Voltaire’s Candide mocks the concept of optimism and critiques 18th century Europe with this enduring, sarcastic and witty parody of romantic adventure stories.

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