Candide — Audiobook
The instrumentWhen will you finish it?
Based on 4.5 hours of listening (estimated).
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 9 days |
| 1 hour / day | 5 days |
| 2 hours / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 3 days |
You'll finish in—by —
What our data says
- At 4.5 hours (estimated), it's shorter than 97% of the romance audiobooks we measured.
- That's 50% shorter than the average romance audiobook (9 hrs across 819 titles in our dataset).
Computed from romance audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset; listening time estimated from page count.
Who is this for?
Best for romance listeners — a weekend-size listen at 4.5 hours (estimated).
About the book
Candide is a delightful story filled with boundless misadventure while tackling the great philosophical issues of the Enlightenment era. The story is about Candide, a young man who is the illegitimate nephew of a German baron with whom he resides. When it is discovered he is kissing the baron's beautiful daughter he is thrown from the castle where he experiences the horrors of war, poverty, the maliciousness of man, and the hypocrisy of the church. Obviously, Voltaire is poking fun at Leibniz, Pope, and others who assail that the world created by God was the best possible of all worlds with perfect order and reason, as spoken through the greatest of all fictional philosophers, Candide's tutor, Pangloss. As you listen to segments of Candide, take the time to research both the book and Voltaire to gain a richer understanding of the themes interlaced throughout the book.
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Start the free trialQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Candide audiobook?
Candide runs about 4.5 hours — our estimate from its 152 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3 hours.
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When was Candide first published?
Candide by Voltaire was first published in 1746.