Candide

Many people read this book without knowing any background info of the time those book was written and the philosophy of the time Candide was set in so they see this book as plain vulgar and weird because they don't understand where the satire is and how it plays a role on the story. So i suggest that you do a little research before reading this.

Hilarious and entertaining. It's amazing how much of the jokes and jibes you can understand in this outdated language... and a lesson to be learned... an old fashioned, pessimistic, Forrest Gump-esque adventure.

There is little need to sing the praises of Candide. It is a funny biting, satire of enlightenment thinking. However this particular eBook is riddled with typos. It appears to be an unchecked machine OCR of a printed book. It is full of periods where commas should be and comas at the end of sentences. There are many places that have the number 1 where the letter I should be. Sometimes there are just a series of special characters that make one wonder what was really meant. The problems would have been found in a grammar check with a decade old version of MS Word, so all I conclude is that the publisher did not check the work. At least I hope so, it would be worse if someone personally approved such sloppy work. The total effect is to break the magic of reading such a good work. Buy another translation to enjoy this wonderful book.