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.
| ISBN: | 9781847493798 |
| Publication date: | 18th September 2014 |
| Author: | Voltaire |
| Publisher: | Alma Classics an imprint of Alma Books COMMIS |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 160 pages |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary Fiction in translation |