I. What do you consider to be the most important passage in the novel and why?
Candide or Optimism, story by Voltaire, World Literature, the Eighteenth Century
Candide Study Guide
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- Introduction (1918 ed.)
- I. How Candide was brought up in a Magnificent Castle, and how he was expelled...
- II. What became of Candide among the Bulgarians
- III. HOW CANDIDE MADE HIS ESCAPE FROM THE BULGARIANS, AND WHAT AFTERWARDS BECAME OF...
- IV. HOW CANDIDE FOUND HIS OLD MASTER PANGLOSS, AND WHAT HAPPENED TO...
- V. TEMPEST, SHIPWRECK, EARTHQUAKE, AND WHAT BECAME OF DOCTOR PANGLOSS, CANDIDE, AND JAMES THE...
- VI. HOW THE PORTUGUESE MADE A BEAUTIFUL AUTO-DA-FÉ, TO PREVENT ANY FURTHER EARTHQUAKES; AND HOW CANDIDE WAS PUBLICLY...
- VII. HOW THE OLD WOMAN TOOK CARE OF CANDIDE, AND HOW HE FOUND THE OBJECT HE...
- VIII. THE HISTORY OF CUNEGONDE.
- IX. WHAT BECAME OF CUNEGONDE, CANDIDE, THE GRAND INQUISITOR, AND THE...
- X. IN WHAT DISTRESS CANDIDE, CUNEGONDE, AND THE OLD WOMAN ARRIVED AT CADIZ; AND OF THEIR...
- XI. HISTORY OF THE OLD WOMAN.
- XII. THE ADVENTURES OF THE OLD WOMAN CONTINUED
- XIII. HOW CANDIDE WAS FORCED AWAY FROM HIS FAIR CUNEGONDE AND THE OLD...
- XIV. HOW CANDIDE AND CACAMBO WERE RECEIVED BY THE JESUITS OF...
- XV. HOW CANDIDE KILLED THE BROTHER OF HIS DEAR...
- XVI. ADVENTURES OF THE TWO TRAVELLERS, WITH TWO GIRLS, TWO MONKEYS, AND THE SAVAGES CALLED...
- XVII. ARRIVAL OF CANDIDE AND HIS VALET AT EL DORADO, AND WHAT THEY SAW...
- XVIII. WHAT THEY SAW IN THE COUNTRY OF EL DORADO.
- XIX. WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM AT SURINAM AND HOW CANDIDE GOT ACQUAINTED WITH...
- XX. WHAT HAPPENED AT SEA TO CANDIDE AND MARTIN.
- XXI. CANDIDE AND MARTIN, REASONING, DRAW NEAR THE COAST OF...
- XXII. WHAT HAPPENED IN FRANCE TO CANDIDE AND...
- XXIII. CANDIDE AND MARTIN TOUCHED UPON THE COAST OF ENGLAND, AND WHAT THEY SAW...
- XXIV. OF PAQUETTE AND PERE GIROFLEE
- XXV. THE VISIT TO LORD POCOCURANTE, A NOBLE...
- XXVI. OF A SUPPER CANDIDE AND MARTIN TOOK WITH SIX STRANGERS, AND WHO THEY WERE....
- XXVII. CANDIDE'S VOYAGE TO CONSTANTINOPLE.
- XXVIII. WHAT HAPPENED TO CANDIDE, CUNEGONDE, PANGLOSS, MARTIN,...
- XXVIV. HOW CANDIDE FOUND CUNEGONDE AND THE OLD WOMAN...
- XXX. THE CONCLUSION
- FOOTNOTES
- Sources
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