Micromegas : Newly Translated and Annotated

Alma Books Ltd

Only edition in print\nMicromegas 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 \u2013 a comparative dwarf, being only two kilometres high \u2013 and the two decide to travel to earth together, where they will make startling discoveries about human nature.\nAt once a story-length Bildungsroman and a philosophical tale, \u2018Micromegas\u2019 is a classic Enlightenment text, and is accompanied in this volume by thirteen other pieces \u2013 including \u2018Plato\u2019s Dream\u2019 and \u2018Memnon\u2019 \u2013 all in a new translation by acclaimed French specialist Douglas Parm\u00E9e.\n\nMicromegas\nNewly Translated and Annotated\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPlease not;