Candide
Voltaire
A young optimist is thrown through disaster after disaster across three continents and keeps insisting all is for the best. Short chapters and biting humour make it one of the fastest classics to finish.
Loading the book...
Keep reading
-
Next in this topic
Heart of DarknessA riverboat journey upriver becomes a study of greed and moral collapse. Conrad does it in under a hundred pages of dense, haunting prose.
Verified PDF · Secure download - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Alice follows a white rabbit underground into a world that runs on its own logic. Carroll's nonsense classic, complete and illustrated.
Verified PDF · Secure download - The Gambler
A tutor in a German spa town is pulled into roulette and cannot stop. Dostoevsky wrote it in twenty six days while paying off his own gambling debts.
Verified PDF · Secure download - The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories
A collection of Chekhov's finest short stories in the Constance Garnett translation. Each one runs a few pages and turns on a small moment that changes everything.
Verified PDF · Secure download - Treasure Island
A boy finds a pirate map and joins a voyage where half the crew is planning mutiny. The adventure novel that fixed pirates in the popular imagination.
Verified PDF · Secure download
Explore more Short Stories
- Short Stories for Adults
- Short Mystery Stories
- Short Love Stories
- Short Bedtime Stories
- Science Fiction Short Stories
- Famous Short Stories
- Moral Stories
- Short Fantasy Stories