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Candide, or Optimism
- By: Francois Voltaire, Theo Cuffe - editor, Michael Wood - introduction, and others
- Narrated by: Ben Lloyd Hughes
- Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Ben Lloyd-Hughes, best known for Divergent, Me Before You and The Inbetweeners. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Michael Wood. Brought up in the household of a powerful Baron, Candide is an open-minded young man...
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Narrator did a great job
- By Emily H on 08-02-2025
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Candide, or Optimism
- Narrated by: Ben Lloyd Hughes
- Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 25-02-2021
- Language: English
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Voltaire and the Triumph of the Enlightenment
- By: Alan Charles Kors, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Alan Charles Kors
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Original Recording
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Discover why intellectuals and historians alike consider Voltaire to be one of the most intriguing, influential, and elusive thinkers of the modern world. Focusing on the deepest, most enduring aspects of Voltaire's work and thought, but never losing sight of the colorful, fascinating man himself, these 12 lectures sketch for you a vibrant, thought-provoking vision of Voltaire as "the father of the Enlightenment" and one of the great literary personalities of all time.
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Voltaire and the Triumph of the Enlightenment
- Narrated by: Alan Charles Kors
- Series: The Great Courses: Modern Philosophy
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 08-07-2013
- Language: English
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Candide and Zadig
- Narrated by: Clive Chafer
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 09-06-2011
- Language: English
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Micromegas
- By: Voltaire, Audible Sleep
- Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
- Length: 59 mins
- Original Recording
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If we were as tiny as ants to another being, what would they make of our philosophies? The great satirist Voltaire imagines alien visitors who have opinions. Bedtime stories are narrated by the world's most celebrated voices and written with no beginning, middle, or end so you don't stay up to hear what happens next. They're interesting enough to give your mind something to focus on, but delivered in a way that encourages sleep.
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Really interesting early SciFi
- By Daniel Smartt on 21-11-2024
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Micromegas
- Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
- Length: 59 mins
- Release date: 14-05-2020
- Language: English
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Candide
- By: Voltaire
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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When Candide is cast out of his sheltered life, he embarks on a journey filled with war, natural disasters, betrayal, and heartbreak—all while clinging to the optimistic philosophy of his mentor, Pangloss. As he travels across Europe and the Americas, encountering a bizarre array of characters and suffering the harsh realities of life, Candide’s faith in idealism is repeatedly tested. In this classic satire, Voltaire skewers the pretensions of philosophy, religion, and social systems, offering a compelling critique of human nature.
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Candide
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 27-02-2025
- Language: English
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Candide and Zadig
- By: Voltaire
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Voltaire's razor-sharp satire on philosophical optimism, Candide, is coupled here with another of the author's most celebrated works, Zadig. Both challenge the moral and philosophical orthodoxies of the day with humor and sly wit, while parodying the clichéd formulas of so many contemporary novels.
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Succinctly Sharp & Penetrating Entertainment
- By Daniel on 26-05-2018
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Candide and Zadig
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 28-08-2008
- Language: English
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Candide (Gildan Media Edition)
- By: Voltaire
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Candide, is a French satire written in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. One of the finest satires ever written, this lively tale follows the absurdly melodramatic adventures of the youthful Candide, who is forced into the army, flogged, shipwrecked, betrayed, robbed, separated from his beloved Cunégonde, and tortured by the Inquisition. As Candide witnesses calamity upon calamity, he becomes disillusioned and discovers that all is not always for the best....
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Candide (Gildan Media Edition)
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 16-09-2010
- Language: English
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Candide
- In an American Voice
- By: Voltaire
- Narrated by: Deaver Brown
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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The legendary ironic insightful classic by Voltaire, considered the greatest artistic genius of his era. Introducing the legendary, best-of-all-possible-worlds Pangloss. A whirlwind trip around the globe with irony, wit, insight, genius, and more at each stop.
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Candide
- In an American Voice
- Narrated by: Deaver Brown
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 24-03-2022
- Language: English
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Candide, with eBook
- By: Voltaire
- Narrated by: Tom Whitworth
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the tale of the happy but ill-fated Candide and his progressive disillusionment with the idea that we live in the best of all possible worlds. His tutor, Dr. Pangloss, embodies this philosophy of good cheer, even in the face of ever more absurd misfortunes. Luckily, Candide's other companions provide an over-supply of good sense.
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Candide, with eBook
- Narrated by: Tom Whitworth
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 24-01-2006
- Language: English
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Candide ou l'optimisme
- By: Voltaire
- Narrated by: Frédéric Chevaux
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Candide est un jeune garçon vivant au château du baron de Thunderten-tronckh qui se trouve en Westphalie. Il a pour maître Pangloss, philosophe qui enseigne la "métaphysico-théologo-cosmolonigologie", et qui professait, à l'instar de Leibniz, que l'on vit dans le meilleur des mondes possibles.
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Candide ou l'optimisme
- Narrated by: Frédéric Chevaux
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 18-11-2014
- Language: French
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Micromégas
- By: Voltaire
- Narrated by: Alain Couchot
- Length: 53 mins
- Unabridged
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"Dans une de ces planètes qui tournent autour de l'étoile nommée Sirius, il y avait un jeune homme de beaucoup d'esprit, que j'ai eu l'honneur de connaître dans le dernier voyage qu'il fit sur notre petite fourmilière ; il s'appelait Micromégas, nom qui convient fort à tous les grands. Il avait huit lieues de haut : j'entends, par huit lieues, vingt-quatre mille pas géométriques de cinq pieds chacun."
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Micromégas
- Narrated by: Alain Couchot
- Length: 53 mins
- Release date: 17-03-2014
- Language: French
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Candide (illustrated)
- By: Voltaire
- Narrated by: Alastair Cameron
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Voltaire's Candide can only be described as a satirical novella that was intended to attack the optimistic and backwards way of thinking that was common during the 18th century. Filled with absurd and darkly humorous content, the short work is a highly debatable and thought-provoking piece. The story centers around Candide, the nephew of a baron, who's teacher, Pangloss, teaches Candide that the world is the way it should be and that everything in it is good.
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Candide (illustrated)
- Narrated by: Alastair Cameron
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 05-01-2016
- Language: English
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Dictionnaire philosophique
- Narrated by: Jacques Roland
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 17-06-2013
- Language: French
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Zadig ou la Destinée
- By: Voltaire
- Narrated by: Alain Couchot
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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"Zadig ou la Destinée" est un conte philosophique de Voltaire, inspiré d'un conte persan. Voltaire y raconte les mésaventures et les revers de fortune d'un jeune homme né à Babylone. Ce conte se place à la confluence de trois genres littéraires : le conte de fées (mis à la mode par Perrault et les Contes des Mille et une Nuits), le roman picaresque (Zadig décrit une ascension sociale, suivie de coups du sort) et le roman sentimental (Zadig relate les tribulations de deux amants éloignés par la vie).
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Zadig ou la Destinée
- Narrated by: Alain Couchot
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 10-03-2016
- Language: French
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Candide (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Voltaire
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Candide, the illegitimate nephew of a German baron and student of eternal optimist Pangloss, is living a simple and sheltered life in "the best of all possible worlds." But when Candide falls in love with the wrong woman, his uncle's young daughter, he is exiled from the baron's castle and suffers great tragedy and catastrophe, which leaves him disillusioned and questioning the goodness of the universe.
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Candide (AmazonClassics Edition)
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 22-12-2017
- Language: English
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Candide [CSA Word]
- By: Voltaire
- Narrated by: Andrew Sachs
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Candide and his tutor Pangloss travel the globe trying to follow the philosophy "All is for the best in this, the best of all possible worlds". However, they are stung and let down at every turn, being robbed, tortured, and ridiculed, amongst other trials. On hearing about their often disasterous travels, a listener feels unfortunately less than empathetic, and can't help themselves laughing out loud at this very funny account of the trail our optimistic travellers take.
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Classic humour
- By Anonymous on 17-11-2025
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Candide [CSA Word]
- Narrated by: Andrew Sachs
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 29-01-2008
- Language: English
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Candide ou L'optimisme
- By: Voltaire
- Narrated by: Bernard
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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On sait tout de Candide, sauf une chose : quel rapport l'auteur avait-il avec ses personnages ? Les a-t-il imaginés ou connus ? A-t-il partagé certaines de leurs aventures ? Est-il caché dans un coin du roman pour les observer ? Ce regard que Voltaire pouvait porter de l'intérieur sur sa création, c'est justement celui qu'au-delà des connaissances acquises, on a eu l'audace de tenter de porter sur Candide. Cette édition change l'interprétation du plus étudié, mais aussi de plus secret des contes voltairiens. Il s'y présente de façon nouvelle.
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Candide ou L'optimisme
- Narrated by: Bernard
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 24-10-2022
- Language: French
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Candide, ou l'optimisme
- By: Voltaire
- Narrated by: Lou Saintagne
- Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Tous les événements sont enchaînés dans le meilleur des mondes possibles : car enfin si vous n'aviez pas été chassé d'un beau château à grands coups de pied dans le derrière pour l'amour de mademoiselle Cunégonde, si vous n'aviez pas été mis à l'Inquisition, si vous n'aviez pas donné un bon coup d'épée au baron, si vous n'aviez pas perdu vos moutons du bon pays d'Eldorado, vous ne mangeriez pas ici des cédrats confits et des pistaches.
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Candide, ou l'optimisme
- Narrated by: Lou Saintagne
- Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 19-08-2016
- Language: French
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Micromegas: A philosophical short story
- By: Voltaire
- Narrated by: Paul Spera
- Length: 41 mins
- Unabridged
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First published in 1752, "Micromegas" is one of Voltaire’s best-known works. It is a tale of mordant irony, and actually the original science-fiction short story. Arriving on Earth from the star Sirius, the gigantic explorer Micromegas discovers the people of Earth, so small compared to him that he first believes that no creature this size can hope to achieve any degree of intelligence; he will soon discover the ways and thoughts of these diminutive people, who clearly have an over-inflated idea of their own importance in the universe. Voltaire's extrapolations of sun-powered interstellar flight, alien civilizations, and the two moons of Mars, are designed to make us see ourselves in a new light and laugh at what we find.
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Micromegas: A philosophical short story
- Narrated by: Paul Spera
- Length: 41 mins
- Release date: 24-08-2016
- Language: English
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Candide oder Der Optimismus
- Eine philosophische Novelle
- By: Voltaire
- Narrated by: Sven Görtz
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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In Candide oder Der Optimismus zieht Voltaire mit spitzer Feder gegen den naiven Weltglauben seiner Zeit zu Felde. Der junge Candide durchlebt Krieg, Erdbeben, Inquisition, Raub, Betrug – und bleibt dabei stets seinem optimistischen Lehrsatz treu. Doch die Realität holt ihn ein. Und Voltaire? Der malt ein düsteres, oft komisches und radikal kritisches Bild der Welt – in einer Novelle, die ebenso philosophisch wie unterhaltsam ist.
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Candide oder Der Optimismus
- Eine philosophische Novelle
- Narrated by: Sven Görtz
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 16-01-2026
- Language: German
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