Candide and Other Stories

''If this is the best of all possible worlds, then what must the others be like?''Young Candide is tossed on a hilarious tide of misfortune, experiencing the full horror and injustice of this ''best of all possible worlds'' - the Old and the New - before finally accepting that his old philosophy tutor Dr Pangloss has got it all wrong. There are no grounds for his daft theory of Optimism. Yet lif...