The naive Candide is literally kicked out of his childhood home when unfairly accused of sexual attentions towards his idol, Lady Cunégonde. Yet Dr Pangloss, the learned philosopher, has taught him the positive notion that all is for the best. And throughout his hilarious adventures and misfortunes, Candide remains true to Pangloss's creed, even when faced with ridiculous examples of injustice, suffering and despair. His incessant optimism appears to be justified-in E1 Dorado, a Utopian land in which money and possessions are deemed worthless, yet ironically Candide is restless to leave this ideal society in search of worldly fulfihnent.

Voltaire's scathing attack on vain and dreamy philosophizing remains as controversial and entertaining today as on its first Publication in 1759.

PART I

 Chapter

 I. The Castle of Thunder-ten-Tronckh

 II. Running the Gaundet

 III. Escape into Holland

 IV. Pangloss on the Pox

 V. The Death of the Anabaptist

 VL An Auto-da-fé

 VIIvn. Cunégonde Re-found

 VIII. Cunégonde's Story

 IX. Deaths of the Jew and the Inquisitor

 X. Embarkation for the New World

 XI. The Old Woman's Story--1

 XII. The Old Woman's Story--2

 XIII. The Governor of Buenos Aires

 XIV. Flight to Paraguay

 XV. The Jesuit Baron

 XVI The Girls and the Monkeys

 XVII. El Dorado--1

 XVIII. El Dorado--2

 XIX. The Dutch Shipmaster

 XX. Martin the Manichaean

 XXI The Nature of Mankind

 XXII. A Rich Stranger in Paris

 XXIII. 'To Encourage the Others'

 XXIV. Paquette and Friar Girofl&

 XXV. Senator Pococurante

 XXVI. Supper with Six Kings

 XXVII. Voyage to Constantinople

 XXVIII, The Galley-shves' Stories

 XXVX. Cunégonde Found Again

 XXX. Philosophy on the Proponfis

PART II

 Original Introduction to Part II

 Chapter

 I. Candide Sets Out Again

 II. The Hospitable Persian

 III. A Favourite of the Sophi

 IV. Candide Loses a Leg

 V. Governor Candide

 VI. Candide's Seraglio

 VII. Zirza's Story

 VIII. The Abbé Again

 IX. Candide is Disgraced

 X. Pangloss and the Officer

 XI Candide and the Lapp Wife

 XII The Ncwtonians and The Parricide

 XIII. Zenoida's Story

 XIV. The Wooing of Zenoida

 XV. Volhall Intervcnes

 XVI. The Jealous Cunégondc

 XVII. Candide Mcditates Suicide

 XVIII. The End of Pangloss

 XIX. The Last of Cunégondc

 XX. 'Everything is Not Too Bad'