Candide

Candide by Voltaire

Candide is the story of a delicate man who, in spite of the fact that pummeled and slapped in each course by destiny, clings frantically to the conviction that he lives within "the best of all conceivable universes." On the surface a witty, bantering story, this eighteenth-century classic is really a savage, satiric pushed at the philosophical good faith that broadcasts that all fiasco and human enduring is portion of a generous infinite arrange.