title: Candide, with eBook (Tantor Unabridged Classics)
author: Voltaire
description: Francois Marie Arouet (16941778)pen name Voltairewas one of France's greatest writers and philosophers. His best-known works include Zadig, Candide, and the Dictionnaire Philosophique.
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  # Candide
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Voltaire
  
  
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  * [INTRODUCTION.](cand_split_2.html#1_0_2)
  
  
  * [I. HOW CANDIDE WAS BROUGHT UP IN A MAGNIFICENT
  
  
  CASTLE, AND HOW HE WAS EXPELLED THENCE.
  
  
  * [II. WHAT BECAME OF CANDIDE AMONG THE BULGARIANS.](cand_split_4.html#1_0_4)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [III. HOW CANDIDE MADE HIS ESCAPE FROM THE
  
  
  BULGARIANS, AND WHAT AFTERWARDS BECAME OF HIM.
  
  
  * [IV. HOW CANDIDE FOUND HIS OLD MASTER PANGLOSS, AND
  
  
  WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM.
  
  
  * [V. TEMPEST, SHIPWRECK, EARTHQUAKE, AND WHAT BECAME
  
  
  OF DOCTOR PANGLOSS, CANDIDE, AND JAMES THE ANABAPTIST.
  
  
  * [VI. HOW THE PORTUGUESE MADE A BEAUTIFUL AUTO-DA-FÉ,
  
  
  TO PREVENT ANY FURTHER EARTHQUAKES; AND HOW CANDIDE WAS PUBLICLY
  
  
  WHIPPED.
  
  
  * [VII. HOW THE OLD WOMAN TOOK CARE OF CANDIDE, AND
  
  
  HOW HE FOUND THE OBJECT HE LOVED.
  
  
  * [VIII. THE HISTORY OF CUNEGONDE.](cand_split_10.html#1_0_10)
  
  
  * [IX. WHAT BECAME OF CUNEGONDE, CANDI