Candide: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Candide, credited to Voltaire, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Candide by Voltaire. (Translated by Philip Littell.) Read in English by John Van Stan 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. - Summary by Philip Littell

Recording facts

• Recording title: Candide
• Author credits: Voltaire
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 31
• Listed recording duration: 4:33:17

Catalogue topics

• Cunégonde
• Pangloss
• optimism
• satirism

Opening tracks: first 24 of 31

1. 00 - Introduction — 8:31
2. 01 - How Candide was brought up in a Magnificent Castle, and how he was expelled thence — 6:48
3. 02 - What became of Candide among the Bulgarians — 6:20
4. 03 - How Candide made his escape from the Bulgarians, and what afterwards became of him — 5:49
5. 04 - How Candide found his old Master Pangloss, and what happened to them — 9:11
6. 05 - Tempest, Shipwreck, Earthquake, and what became of Doctor Pangloss, Candide, and James the Anabaptist — 7:07
7. 06 - How the Portuguese made a Beautiful Auto-da-fé, to prevent any further Earthquakes: and how Candide was publicly whipped — 3:28
8. 07 - How the Old Woman took care of Candide, and how he found the Object he loved — 5:44
9. 08 - The History of Cunegonde — 8:00
10. 09 - What became of Cunegonde, Candide, the Grand Inquisitor, and the Jew — 4:33
11. 10 - In what distress Candide, Cunegonde, and the Old Woman arrived at Cadiz; and of their Embarkation — 5:38
12. 11 - History of the Old Woman — 11:12
13. 12 - The Adventures of the Old Woman continued — 11:45
14. 13 - How Candide was forced away from his fair Cunegonde and the Old Woman — 5:55
15. 14 - How Candide and Cacambo were received by the Jesuits of Paraguay — 8:55
16. 15 - How Candide killed the brother of his dear Cunegonde — 5:34
17. 16 - Adventures of the Two Travellers, with Two Girls, Two Monkeys, and the Savages called Oreillons — 9:29
18. 17 - Arrival of Candide and his Valet at El Dorado, and what they saw there — 9:05
19. 18 - What they saw in the Country of El Dorado — 14:30
20. 19 - What happened to them at Surinam and how Candide got acquainted with Martin — 13:12
21. 20 - What happened at Sea to Candide and Martin — 6:45
22. 21 - Candide and Martin, reasoning, draw near the Coast of France — 5:04
23. 22 - What happened in France to Candide and Martin — 25:56
24. 23 - Candide and Martin touched upon the Coast of England, and what they saw there — 3:50

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