Candide, or Optimism
- Author Francois Voltaire
- Narrator Ben Lloyd Hughes
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 4 hours and 17 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Adventure fiction, Classic fiction, Satirical fiction and parodies.
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This Penguin Classic is performed by Ben Lloyd-Hughes, best known for Divergent, Me Before You and The Inbetweeners. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Michael Wood.
Brought up in the household of a powerful Baron, Candide is an open-minded young man, whose tutor, Pangloss, has instilled in him the belief that 'all is for the best'. But when his love for the Baron's rosy-cheeked daughter is discovered, Candide is cast out to make his own way in the world. And so he and his various companions begin a breathless tour of Europe, South America and Asia, as an outrageous series of disasters befall them - earthquakes, syphilis, a brush with the Inquisition, murder - sorely testing the young hero's optimism.
© Michael Wood 2006 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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