Candide by Voltaire

• Chapter 1 - How Candide Was Brought Up in a Magnificent Castle and How He Was Driven Thence
• Chapter 2 - What Befell Candide among the Bulgarians
• Chapter 3 - How Candide Escaped from the Bulgarians and What Befell Him Afterward
• Chapter 4 - How Candide Found His Old Master Pangloss Again and What Happened to Him
• Chapter 5 - A Tempest, a Shipwreck, an Earthquake, and What Else Befell Dr. Pangloss, Candide, and James, the Anabaptist
• Chapter 6 - How the Portuguese Made a Superb Auto-De-Fe to Prevent Any Future Earthquakes, and How Candide Underwent Public Flagellation
• Chapter 7 - How the Old Woman Took Care Of Candide, and How He Found the Object of His Love
• Chapter 8 - Cunegund's Story
• Chapter 9 - What Happened to Cunegund, Candide, the Grand Inquisitor, and the Jew
• Chapter 10 - In What Distress Candide, Cunegund, and the Old Woman Arrive at Cadiz, and Of Their Embarkation
• Chapter 11 - The History of the Old Woman
• Chapter 12 - The Adventures of the Old Woman Continued
• Chapter 13 - How Candide Was Obliged to Leave the Fair Cunegund and the Old Woman
• Chapter 14 - The Reception Candide and Cacambo Met with among the Jesuits in Paraguay
• Chapter 15 - How Candide Killed the Brother of His Dear Cunegund
• Chapter 16 - What Happened to Our Two Travelers with Two Girls, Two Monkeys, and the Savages, Called Oreillons
• Chapter 17 - Candide and His Valet Arrive in the Country of El Dorado-What They Saw There
• Chapter 18 - What They Saw in the Country of El Dorado
• Chapter 19 - What Happened to Them at Surinam, and How Candide Became Acquainted with Martin
• Chapter 20 - What Befell Candide and Martin on Their Passage
• Chapter 21 - Candide and Martin, While Thus Reasoning with Each Other, Draw Near to the Coast of France
• Chapter 22 - What Happened to Candide and Martin in France
• Chapter 23 - Candide and Martin Touch upon the English Coast-What They See There
• Chapter 24 - Of Pacquette and Friar Giroflee
• Chapter 25 - Candide and Martin Pay a Visit to Seignor Pococurante, a Noble Venetian
• Chapter 26 - Candide and Martin Sup with Six Sharpers-Who They Were
• Chapter 27 - Candide's Voyage to Constantinople
• Chapter 28 - What Befell Candide, Cunegund, Pangloss, Martin, etc.
• Chapter 29 - What Manner Candide Found Miss Cunegund and the Old Woman Again
• Chapter 30 - Conclusion

"Work then without disputing," said Martin; "it is the only way to render life supportable."

The little society, one and all, entered into this laudable design and set themselves to exert their different talents. The little piece of ground yielded them a plentiful crop. Cunegund indeed was very ugly, but she became an excellent hand at pastrywork: Pacquette embroidered; the old woman had the care of the linen. There was none, down to Brother Giroflee, but did some service; he was a very good carpenter, and became an honest man. Pangloss used now and then to say to Candide:

"There is a concatenation of all events in the best of possible worlds; for, in short, had you not been kicked out of a fine castle for the love of Miss Cunegund; had you not been put into the Inquisition; had you not traveled over America on foot; had you not run the Baron through the body; and had you not lost all your sheep, which you brought from the good country of El Dorado, you would not have been here to eat preserved citrons and pistachio nuts."

"Excellently observed," answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden."

-THE END- .

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