Last year I took a course on European history from the 16th-20th century and the professor who taught it, Neven Leddy, spent most of his researching time on the Enlightenment. So I thought hey, let's read a novel by someone during that era. Immediately I thought of Voltaire, I mean he was exiled so he should have something interesting to say, right? I won't lie, the cover of Voltaire's' Candide probably would have made me buy it anyway cause the book is essentially summed up in a comic on it, how cool is that? A comical tale of a young man's journey into manhood with nothing but the hope that this is the best of all possible worlds.
