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  • Candide

  • By: Voltaire
  • Narrated by: Roy Macready
  • Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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Candide

By: Voltaire
Narrated by: Roy Macready
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Summary

The story follows the eponymous hero and his tutor Doctor Pangloss through a series of adventures and misfortunes, all the time doggedly attempting, against the odds, to adhere to the doctor's philosophy that "all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds".

Public Domain (P)2016 Spiders' House Audio/Roy Macready
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