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Candide (Gildan Media Edition)
- By: Voltaire
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Candide, is a French satire written in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. One of the finest satires ever written, this lively tale follows the absurdly melodramatic adventures of the youthful Candide, who is forced into the army, flogged, shipwrecked, betrayed, robbed, separated from his beloved Cunégonde, and tortured by the Inquisition. As Candide witnesses calamity upon calamity, he becomes disillusioned and discovers that all is not always for the best....
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Always a delightful book - perfectly narrated.
- By William Farrar on 15-11-17
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Candide (Gildan Media Edition)
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 16-09-10
- Language: English
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Candide
- In an American Voice
- By: Voltaire
- Narrated by: Deaver Brown
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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The legendary ironic insightful classic by Voltaire, considered the greatest artistic genius of his era. Introducing the legendary, best-of-all-possible-worlds Pangloss. A whirlwind trip around the globe with irony, wit, insight, genius, and more at each stop.
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Candide
- In an American Voice
- Narrated by: Deaver Brown
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 24-03-22
- Language: English
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Candide
- By: Voltaire
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Candide is a relentless, brutal assault on government, society, religion, education, and, above all, optimism. Dr. Pangloss teaches his young students Candide and Cunegonde that everything in this world is for the best, a sentiment they cling to as the world steps in to teach them otherwise. The novel is brilliant, hilarious, blasphemous. . . and Voltaire never admitted to writing it!
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Somewhere Close to Happy
- By: Lia Louis
- Narrated by: Candida Gubbins
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Lizzie James is happy. She has a steady office job (with a steady stream of tray bakes), has had the same best friend since secondary school, and sees her family every Thursday night for take-away and TV soaps. Granted, some members of her family she'd rather not see, and they definitely don't want to see her after what happened back then...but on the whole she's happy. Or somewhere close to it, anyway. Until a letter arrives one day from her best friend, Roman. A letter dated 12 years ago, the exact day he went missing.
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Definitely not a laugh out loud book as described!
- By Amazon Customer on 27-10-20
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Somewhere Close to Happy
- Narrated by: Candida Gubbins
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 13-06-19
- Language: English
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Candide (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Voltaire
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
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Candide, the illegitimate nephew of a German baron and student of eternal optimist Pangloss, is living a simple and sheltered life in "the best of all possible worlds." But when Candide falls in love with the wrong woman, his uncle's young daughter, he is exiled from the baron's castle and suffers great tragedy and catastrophe, which leaves him disillusioned and questioning the goodness of the universe.
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Candide (AmazonClassics Edition)
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 22-12-17
- Language: English
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Candide (illustrated)
- By: Voltaire
- Narrated by: Alastair Cameron
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
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Voltaire's Candide can only be described as a satirical novella that was intended to attack the optimistic and backwards way of thinking that was common during the 18th century. Filled with absurd and darkly humorous content, the short work is a highly debatable and thought-provoking piece. The story centers around Candide, the nephew of a baron, who's teacher, Pangloss, teaches Candide that the world is the way it should be and that everything in it is good.
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Candide (illustrated)
- Narrated by: Alastair Cameron
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 05-01-16
- Language: English
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Candide oder Die beste aller Welten
- Eine philosophische Novelle
- By: Voltaire
- Narrated by: Sven Görtz
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Ist Optimismus gerechtfertigt? Nicht, wenn man Voltaire glauben darf. In seiner satirischen Novelle "Candide" malt der Autor ein pessimistisches Weltbild. Und was packt der Autor nicht alles in diese Geschichte! Ein unübertreffliches Beispiel reiner Erzählfreude!!!
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Candide oder Die beste aller Welten
- Eine philosophische Novelle
- Narrated by: Sven Görtz
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 04-03-21
- Language: German
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Candide oder der Optimismus
- By: Voltaire
- Narrated by: Heiner Heusinger
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Ecrasez l’infame! Für die Freiheit des Wortes! So lautet der Kampfruf Voltaires, einem der berühmtesten Väter der Aufklärung. Das Infame, Niederträchtige bedroht die Freiheit des Gedankens.
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Candide oder der Optimismus
- Narrated by: Heiner Heusinger
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 10-02-21
- Language: German
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Tinker, Tailor, Schoolmum, Spy
- By: Faye Brann
- Narrated by: Candida Gubbins
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
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Vicky Turnbull has never regretted giving up her career for family life in the suburbs. And apart from being outstandingly good at paintball, no one would ever know that in a past life she was an undercover spy and has been trained to kill a man with her bare hands. Not even her husband and certainly not the other mums at the school gate. But beneath the school runs and bake sales, Vicky had never quite said goodbye to the past.
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A worthy winner of the Comedy Women in Print prize.
- By Kathleen Whyman on 03-09-21
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Tinker, Tailor, Schoolmum, Spy
- Narrated by: Candida Gubbins
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 31-08-21
- Language: English
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Lara The Runaway Cat
- One cat’s journey to discover home is where the heart is
- By: Dion Leonard, Sophie Pembroke
- Narrated by: Candida Gubbins
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
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Lara the Runaway Cat tells the story of Gobi, the loveable pug who followed Dion Leonard across a gruelling 155-mile trek across the Gobi Desert, and her mischievous cat sister, Lara, who runs away from her family, seeking a courageous adventure and different life.
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cat and her travels
- By sarah hilton on 04-03-24
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Lara The Runaway Cat
- One cat’s journey to discover home is where the heart is
- Narrated by: Candida Gubbins
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 07-02-19
- Language: English
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Candide ou L'optimisme
- By: Voltaire
- Narrated by: Bernard
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
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On sait tout de Candide, sauf une chose : quel rapport l'auteur avait-il avec ses personnages ? Les a-t-il imaginés ou connus ? A-t-il partagé certaines de leurs aventures ? Est-il caché dans un coin du roman pour les observer ? Ce regard que Voltaire pouvait porter de l'intérieur sur sa création, c'est justement celui qu'au-delà des connaissances acquises, on a eu l'audace de tenter de porter sur Candide. Cette édition change l'interprétation du plus étudié, mais aussi de plus secret des contes voltairiens. Il s'y présente de façon nouvelle.
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Candide ou L'optimisme
- Narrated by: Bernard
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 24-10-22
- Language: French
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Candido [Candide]
- By: Voltaire
- Narrated by: Laura Garcia
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
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Tomandole el pelo a la humanidad. La vision del mundo que tuvo Voltaire debio haber sido muy risuena, ya que su obra es un conjunto de ironias y de humor que va de lo escabroso a lo filosofico. Lo notable es que todo esto estuvo al servicio de ideas, en las cuales el tono satirico sirivieron para encauzar y ensenar al mundo hacia algo mejor.
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Candido [Candide]
- Narrated by: Laura Garcia
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 16-09-05
- Language: Spanish
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