Candide by Voltaire 1

the author of this app says:

François-Marie Arouet (November 21, 1694 May 30, 1778), better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, essayist, and philosopher known for his wit and his defense of civil liberties, including both freedom of religion and free trade. Voltaire was a prolific writer and produced works in almost every literary form including plays, poetry, novels, essays, historical and scientific works, more than 20,000 letters and more than 2,000 books and pamphlets. He was an outspoken supporter of social reform, despite strict censorship laws and harsh penalties for those who broke them. A satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize Catholic Church dogma and the French institutions of his day.

Candide, ou l'Optimisme was written in 1759. It begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life and being indoctrinated with optimism by his mentor, Pangloss. The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle, followed by Candide's slow, painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. Voltaire concludes with Candide, if not outright rejecting optimism, advocating an enigmatic precept, "we must cultivate our garden", instead of the mantra he had been taught, "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds".

This eBook uses the established Standard Works book reader already enjoyed by tens of thousands of users. It's also the same reader which powers our "U.S. Historical Documents" application which received a perfect 10/10 rating from AppCraver.com and was recently featured on the iTunes App Store.

The Standard Works book reader is simple to use, but also contains many advanced features not usually found in other eBook readers. Rather than continually flicking through little pages of text like some book readers, the Standard Works book reader displays an entire chapter or book at once for you convenience. The text can even automatically scroll for you in both portrait and landscape modes while reading. You can even highlight important words or phrases using the absolute best highlighting system available on the iPhone platform. Create notes for each paragraph which can be displayed inline and assign bookmarks to any paragraph in any book for future reference. And if that's not enough, quickly and easily find any text from any book with the fastest and most powerful search engine available on the iPhone.

The Standard Works book reader contains the following main features:
Auto-scrolling (both variable-speed and tilt-based, portrait and landscape modes are supported)
Adjustable fonts, size, colors, margins, spacing, and alignment (you can even adjust the font size by using a pinching gesture while reading!)
Highlighting - 12 background colors, 12 foreground colors, bold, italic, and underline
Night (low-light) mode - Black background with white text
Application tips
Bookmarks and even folders of bookmarks
Last location in each book is remembered
When re-launched, you're returned to the exact location you were last at while reading
Search for words or phrases with INSTANT search results
Powerful advanced search options
Create notes for each paragraph which can be displayed inline
Animated satin bookmark (similar to the one in the Classics application)
Ability to choose the application's color theme

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Charles Dickens
Edgar Allen Poe
Hans Christian Andersen
Jack London
Jane Austen
Jules Verne
H.G. Wells
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle