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Originally published: January 1759
Author: Voltaire
Last line: We must cultivate our garden
Genre: Conte philosophique; Satire; Picaresque novel; Bildungsroman; Tragedy
Language: French
Candide, who beheld all that passed and saw his benefactor one moment rising above water, and the next swallowed up by the merciless waves, was preparing to ...
Candide, Cunégonde, Cacambo, Pangloss, and the old woman settle into a comfortable life on the farm but soon find themselves growing bored and quarrelsome.