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  by wasp1028

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Type: fiction

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Status: liked

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Author: Voltaire

2007-10-08

  by miumau

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Type: fiction

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Author: Voltaire

2007-03-20

  by awalls37

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Type: fiction

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Status: to read

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Author: Voltaire

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Tags: satire tragedy, voltaire, corruption,

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Description: This swift and lively tale follows the absurdly melodramatic adventures of the youthful Candide,This swift and lively tale follows the absurdly melodramatic adventures of the youthful Candide, who is forced into the army, flogged, shipwrecked, betrayed, robbed, separated from his beloved Cunegonde, and tortured by the Inquisition....

2006-08-28

  by the_grene_kni3t

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Type: fiction

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Status: I recommend

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Author: Voltaire

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Tags: humor classic france satire

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Description: The title character, whose name means "optimism," travels the world and disprovesThe title character, whose name means "optimism," travels the world and disproves his mentor Pangloss's philosophy that this is "the best of all possible worlds." Still a very funny satire today....

2006-01-14

  by moero

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Type: fiction

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Author: unknown

2005-11-01