Collected together here in Candide and Other Stories we have a collection of philosophical fiction by 18th century French author Voltaire .
In the author's best known work, Candide, we find the story of a man who has lived a sheltered comfortable life, but when he begins to travel the world he witnesses the pervasive hardships of the world, an experience that leads to his ultimate disillusionment with his previously held philosophy.
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