1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

  • Gulliver's Travels
  • Roxana
  • Moll Flanders
  • Love In Excess
  • Robinson Crusoe
  • A Tale of a Tub
  • Oroonoko
  • The Princess of Cleves

Saturday, June 4, 2011

32. Candide by Voltaire

This French satirical novel was published in 1759.  Candide is educated by Pangloss to believe that this is the best of all possible worlds, and then faces a series of hardships which test his belief.

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