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  1. 01/10/2018

    Listen to Candide by Voltaire

    #ads Get premium access to stream any unabridged audiobook by starting your free trial:https://booksreader.space/al-6916/Title: Candide Author: Voltaire Narrator: Kevin Kollins Format: Unabridged Length: 03:01:00 Release date: 01-10-18 Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Language Courses Publisher's Summary: "Candide is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. It begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism by his mentor, Professor 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 rejecting optimism outright, advocating a deeply practical precept, 'we must cultivate our garden', in lieu of the Leibnizian mantra of Pangloss, 'all is for the best' in the 'best of all possible worlds'. "Candide is characterised by its sarcastic tone as well as by its erratic, fantastical, and fast-moving plot. A picaresque novel with a story similar to that of a more serious coming-of-age narrative (Bildungsroman), it parodies many adventure and romance clichés, the struggles of which are caricatured in a tone that is mordantly matter-of-fact. Still, the events discussed are often based on historical happenings, such as the Seven Years' War and the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. As philosophers of Voltaire's day contended with the problem of evil, so too does Candide in this short novel, albeit more directly and humorously. Voltaire ridicules religion, theologians, governments, armies, philosophies, and philosophers through allegory; most conspicuously, he assaults Leibniz and his optimism. "As expected by Voltaire, Candide has enjoyed both great success and great scandal. Immediately after its secretive publication, the book was widely banned because it contained religious blasphemy, political sedition and intellectual hostility hidden under a thin veil of naïveté. However, with its sharp wit and insightful portrayal of the human condition, the novel has since inspired many later authors and artists to mimic and adapt it. Today, Candide is recognized as Voltaire's magnum opus." [Wikipedia]

  2. 01/04/2018

    Listen to Learn Spanish: 2 Books in 1! by Juan Diago

    #ads Get premium access to stream any unabridged audiobook by starting your free trial:https://booksreader.space/al-6916/Title: Learn Spanish: 2 Books in 1! Series: Short Stories for Beginners to Learn Spanish Fast & Easy, Short Stories for Travelers to Learn Spanish Fast & Easy Author: Juan Diago Narrator: John Fiore Format: Unabridged Length: 02:17:00 Release date: 01-04-18 Genres: Language Courses Publisher's Summary: Learn Spanish with short stories volume one and two! Book 1 Are you looking for a fantastic and in-depth way to learn a new language? Why not treat your brain and go about it the natural way? Thats right, your brain has a natural way of learning language, and you simply arent taking advantage of it. Our brains are hardwired to act on a complex system of concepts and context clues to figure out language. Therefore, most polyglots in the world will tell you that the absolute best way to learn a language is by simply immersing yourself in it. With this audiobook, youll be going through different short stories, all of which following the story of a girl named Maria and her kind family from El Salvador. Throughout the short stories, youll be challenged and pushed to your limits - thats how you know the method is working. Youll never be left in the dust, but you will most certainly be immersed in the beautiful Spanish language. After every short story, theres an English version, in case you got totally lost, and a section with grammar tips and vocabulary to help you round out every short story with a proper lesson. Book 2 So, youre going to be hitting the road (or taking to the skies) and ending up somewhere that speaks Spanish. Before you get there, you want a book that will help you feel up to speed with a lot of the phrases that youll need as a traveler in Spanish-speaking countries. Youve found the perfect match. This audiobook covers multiple scenarios that youre going to run into as a traveler, such as picking bags up at the airport, purchasing food at a restaurant, and going shopping. It also offers limitless potential in terms of what it enables you to say by having the stories be set up in such a way that youre still learning things even after multiple listens. One will have you feeling confident in your basic Spanish - more will have you learning extra vocabulary and picking up Spanish sentence structure intuitively and effectively.

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