Currently Out Of Stock
Micromegas
Voltaire
|
Paperback
€8.79
Collect 26 Reward Points
- Currently Out Of Stock
- Book Synopsis
- Only edition in print Micromegas is a six-hundred-and-fifty-year-old, thirty-nine-kilometre-high giant from the planet Sirius who can speak a thousand languages and has been expelled from his homeland for writing a heretical tract. On Saturn he befriends the local secretary of the Academy of Sciences - a comparative dwarf, 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 philosophical 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 Parmée.
- About The Author
- Haydn is Professor Emeritus in the Department of French at Bristol University and author of 'To Homer Through Pope', published by Bristol Classical Press.
- Product Details
-
- ISBN
- 9781847493798
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Alma Classics, (18 September 2014)
- Number of Pages
- 160
- Weight
- 180 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 128 x 12 mm
- Categories: