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Micromegas and other stories / Voltaire ; translated by Douglas Parmee ; foreword by Nicholas Cronk.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Voltaire, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Voltaire, 1694-1778--Translations into English.
- Voltaire.
- Voltaire, 1694-1778.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (161 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Richmond, England : Alma Classics, 2014.
- Summary:
- Micromegas is a six-hundered-and-fifty-year-old, thirty-nine-kilometre-high giant from the planet Sirius who can speak a thousand languages and has been expelled form his homeland for writing a heretical tract. On Saturn he befriends the local secretary of the Academy of Sciences - a comparitive drawf, being only two kilometres high - and the two decide to travel to Earth together, where they will make startling discoveries about human nature...At once a story-length Bildungsroman and a philophical tale, 'Micromegas' is a classic Enlightenment text, and is accompanied in this volume by thirteen other pieces - including 'Plato's Dream' and 'Memnon' - all in a new translation by acclaimed French specialist Douglas Parmnee.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 10, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 9780714546599
- 0714546593
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