Violence
StrongMilitary punishment exposes flesh, and a battlefield and burned village contain slaughtered civilians, dismembered bodies and dying people.
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Candide
Candide, ou l'Optimisme ( kon-DEED or kahn-DEED, French: [kɑ̃did] ) is a French satire written by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment, first published in 1759. The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candidus: or, All for the Best (1759); Candide: or, The Optimist (1762); and Candide: Optimism (1947).
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Project Gutenberg ebook 19942, English text. Scope: Chapters II–III, military punishment and devastated village; English translation as supplied in PG19942. Only selected passages inspected; no full-book reading or assessment of other editions or adaptations.
Sexual content
StrongThe war-atrocity passage alludes to rape of women who are then fatally mutilated.
Frightening & intense themes
StrongThe selected chapters depict torture, mass death and civilians suffering during war.
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