Candide
Candide is 35,676 words — about 2h 23m at 250 words per minute, across 30 chapters. Measure your own speed and read it here.
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Ever since 1759, when Voltaire wrote "Candide" in ridicule of the notion that this is the best of all possible worlds, this world has been a gayer place for readers. Voltaire wrote it in three days, and five or six generations have found that its laughter does not grow old.…
Details
- AuthorVoltaire
- SourceProject Gutenberg #19942
- Length35,676 words · 2h 23m of reading
- Chapters30
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-09-06
Contents
30 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01CANDIDE BY VOLTAIRE
- 02PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
- 03INTRODUCTION
- 04II
- 05III
- 06IV
- 07VI
- 08VII
- 09VIII
- 10IX
- 11XI
- 12XII
- 13XIII
- 14XIV
- 15XV
- 16XVI
- 17XVII
- 18XVIII
- 19XIX
- 20XX
- 21XXI
- 22XXII
- 23XXIII
- 24XXIV
- 25XXV
- 26XXVI
- 27XXVII
- 28XXVIII
- 29XXIX
- 30XXX
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