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«Candide, or Optimism»  — — is the most frequently published work of Voltaire. The book was probably written in 1758 and within a year it appeared in print in five countries under the guise of a translation from German. It became a bestseller at the same time and was banned for many years under the pretext of obscenity.

The heroes of the work - Candide, his girlfriend Kunigunda and mentor Pangloss - travel all over the inhabited world, witness the battles of the Seven Years' War, the capture of Azov by the Russians, the Lisbon earthquake, and even visit the fabulous country of Eldorado.                           

The wanderings of the characters serve as a pretext for the author to ridicule government, theology, military affairs, literature, art and metaphysics, especially the optimist Leibniz with his doctrine that «everything is for the best in this best of worlds». These words sound like a sarcastic refrain every time the heroes face new disasters.