Candide

A peasant girl's tragic story of seduction and social injustice.

A woman bears the shame of adultery in Puritan New England.

Pip, a poor orphan, gains a mysterious fortune and must discover who he truly is.

Generational conflict between old aristocrats and young nihilists.

A swindler tours rural Russia buying the legal names of dead serfs.

A student murders a pawnbroker and is tormented by his conscience.