Candide and L’ingénue

Sharp, satirical, and surprisingly modern, Candide and L’Ingénu brings together two biting works by Voltaire. In Candide, a relentlessly optimistic young man travels the world only to confront war, injustice, and hypocrisy—testing the idea that we live in “the best of all possible worlds.” In L'Ingénu, an outsider’s literal honesty exposes the absurdities of society, religion, and power.