Micromegas And Other Stories - Couverture souple

Voltaire

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1847493793 ISBN 13 : 9781847493798

Editeur : Alma Classics, 2014

Synopsis

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.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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 inlcuding Plato's Dream and Memnon all in a new translation by acclaimed French specialist Douglas Parmée.

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.

Contains: Cosi-Sancta, Plato's Dream, Micromegas, The Way of the World, Memnon, Letter from a Turk, Scarmentado's Travels, Consolation for Two, Story of a Good Brahmin, Jeannot and Colin, Wives, Submit Yourselves unto Your Own Husbands, A Short Digression, An Adventure in India, The Adventure of Memory.

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Revue de presse

This welcome selection of fourteen of the lesser-known fables and parables comes in a wonderfully loose-limbed and unstuffy translation which shows both Voltaire - and the late Douglas Parmée - on top form. --Times Literary Supplement

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Alma Classics
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1847493793
• ISBN 13: 9781847493798
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160