Micromegas

And Other Stories

By: Voltaire, Douglas Parmee (Transcribed by)

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Paperback | 1 October 2014 | Edition Number 1

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'In one of the planets that circle round the star Sirius there lived a very bright young man whom I had the honour of meeting during his recent journey to our little anthill; his name was Micromegas, a most suitable name for all great men.'

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.

About the Author

Voltaire (1694-1778) was a French man of letters and leading figure of the Enlightenment, known for his outspokenness and polemical writings. The philosophical novellas Candide and Zadig are among his most celebrated works.

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Voltaire will always be regarded as the biggest name of recent literature, and perhaps throughout all the centuries. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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 Parmee - on top form. * TLS *

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