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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.
- Autor/a Charles-JosephVoltaire De Ligne (Príncipe De Ligne)
- ISBN13 9781847493798
- ISBN10 1847493793
- Pàgines 160
- Any Edició 2015
- Fecha de publicación 01/04/2015
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Micromegas: Newly Translated and Annotated
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- Charles-JosephVoltaire De Ligne (Príncipe De Ligne)
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- Alma Classics (2015)
- 9781847493798



