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. Read by Ted Delorme Candide is a relentless, brutal assault on government, society, religion, education, and, above all, optimism. Dr. Pangloss teaches his young students Candide and Cunegonde that everything in this world is for the best, a sentiment they cling to as the world steps in to teach them otherwise. The novel is brilliant, hilarious, blasphemous. . . and Voltaire never admitted to writing it. (Summary by Ted Delorme) CD booklet Album ArtCD booklet Album Art

Recording facts

• Recording title: Candide
• Author credits: Voltaire
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 31
• Listed recording duration: 4:04:49

Catalogue topics

• satire
• philosophy
• religion
• critic

Opening tracks: first 24 of 31

1. Chapter 00 - Introduction — 8:04
2. Chapter 01 — 6:11
3. Chapter 02 — 5:51
4. Chapter 03 — 5:39
5. Chapter 04 — 8:22
6. Chapter 05 — 6:35
7. Chapter 06 — 3:28
8. Chapter 07 — 5:01
9. Chapter 08 — 7:07
10. Chapter 09 — 4:14
11. Chapter 10 — 4:57
12. Chapter 11 — 8:45
13. Chapter 12 — 9:49
14. Chapter 13 — 5:42
15. Chapter 14 — 8:08
16. Chapter 15 — 5:15
17. Chapter 16 — 8:28
18. Chapter 17 — 8:36
19. Chapter 18 — 13:20
20. Chapter 19 — 11:47
21. Chapter 20 — 6:09
22. Chapter 21 — 4:21
23. Chapter 22 — 23:24
24. Chapter 23 — 3:33

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