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Title: Micromegas & Other Stories
Author: VOLTAIRE
Illustrator: PARMEE DOUGLAS (ED)
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/10/2014
Imprint: ALMA BOOKS
Price: $20.00
Publishing status: Active
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.
ISBN: 9781847493798
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 144