Candide is a satirical novel by Voltaire.
Bibliographic notesCandide was first published in French in 1759. The first English translation appeared the same year. Voltaire also revised the novel during his lifetime.
See alsoNot all such editions were authorized by the author, particularly not ones claiming a "second part".
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Candide: ou, L'Optimisme (1763; bound with an apocryphal "second part" dated 1761), by Voltaire
- Candide: or, All for the Best (London: G. Redway, 1898), by Voltaire, contrib. by Walter Jerrold, illust. by Adrien Moreau (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Candide (Modern Library edition, anonymously translated; New York: Boni and Liveright, c1918), by Voltaire, contrib. by Philip Littell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Candide (from the 1901 Works of Voltaire; includes an apocryphal "second part"), by Voltaire, trans. by William F. Fleming, contrib. by T. Smollett (HTML and page images at libertyfund.org)
- Candide: ou, L'Optimisme (in French; Paris: G. Boudet, 1893), by Voltaire, contrib. by Francisque Sarcey, illust. by Adrien Moreau (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Candide (in Finnish; Helsinki: Kirja, 1914), by Voltaire, trans. by L. Onerva (Gutenberg text)
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