Micromegas

Author: Voltaire

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Price : 19.99 AUD
ISBN : 9781847493798
Publisher : Alma Classics
Imprint : Alma Classics
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Weight (g) : 0.15
Publication date : 01 September 2014
Dimensions : 19.90 cmmm X 20.40 cmmm X 1.20 cmmm
Produced in : United Kingdom
RRP : 19.99
Availability date : 01 October 2014
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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.

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Voltaire (1694 - 1778) was a French man of letters and leading figure of the Enlightenment, known for his outspokenness and polemical writings. The philosophical novellas Candide and Zadig are among his most celebrated works.

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