Candide: Or Optimism by Voltaire: A naive and gullible young student is forced out from his sheltered life, which is wholly informed by the Enlightenment philosophy that “we live in the best of all possible worlds” and that everything happens for a good reason. Once outside the castle walls, he is quickly subjected to an unending series of horrors including war, torture, slavery, the Inquisition, earthquakes.
First Sentence
“There lived in Wesphalia, at the country seat of Baron Thunder-ten-tronckh, a young lad blessed by nature with the most agreeable manners.”
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