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Title:
MICROMEGAS
By:
Voltaire, Douglas Parmee (Trans)
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ISBN 10:
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Publisher:
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Pub. date:
18 September, 2014
Pages:
160
Translated from:
French
Description:
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 Parmee.
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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?UVRES DE TH??TRE, VOLUME 3 (PB)
?UVRES DE VOLTAIRE, VOLUME 12 (PB)
?UVRES DE VOLTAIRE, VOLUME 17 (PB)
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?UVRES DE VOLTAIRE: PHILOSOPHIE G?N?RALE (PB)
41 'QUESTIONS SUR L'ENCYCLOPEDIE, PAR DES AMATEURS' (HB)
A DEFENCE OF MY UNCLE (HB)
A DEFENCE OF MY UNCLE: TRANSLATED FROM T (PB)
A DEFENCE OF MY UNCLE; TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF M. DE VOLTAIRE
A LETTER FROM M. VOLTAIRE TO THE FRENCH ACADEMY
A LETTER FROM MONS. DE VOLTAIRE TO THE A (PB)
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A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY, FROM THE FR. [BY J.G. GURTON]. (VOLUME 4)
A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY, FROM THE FR. [BY J.G. GURTON]. (VOLUME 5)
A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY, FROM THE FR. [BY J.G. GURTON]. (VOLUME 6)
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