{"product_id":"9781847493798","title":"Micromegas","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eMicromegas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Voltaire\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMicromegas 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Voltaire will always be regarded as the biggest name of recent literature, and perhaps throughout all the centuries.\" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This welcome selection of fourteen of the lesser-known fables and parables comes in a wonderfully loose-limbed and unstuffy translation which shows both Voltaire – and the late Douglas Parmée – on top form.\" - \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781847493798\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Alma Classics","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40603533869262,"sku":"9781847493798","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_1bbd6b6d-acfe-4d6c-bc62-0301f34501c6.jpg?v=1638057836","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781847493798","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}