<p>'Candide' is a delightful story filled with boundless misadventure while tackling the great philosophical issues of the Enlightenment era. The story is about Candide a young man who is the illegitimate nephew of a German baron with whom he resides. When it is discovered he is kissing the baron's beautiful daughter he is thrown from the castle where he experiences the horrors of war poverty the maliciousness of man and the hypocrisy of the church.</p><p>Obviously Voltaire is poking fun at Leibniz Pope and others who assail that the world created by God was the best possible of all worlds with perfect order and reason as spoken through the greatest of all fictional philosophers Candide's tutor Pangloss. As you listen to segments of 'Candide' take the time to research both the book and Voltaire to gain a richer understanding of the themes interlaced throughout the audiobook.</p>