Author: |
Voltaire |
ISBN: |
9780714546599 |
Publisher: |
Alma Books |
Publication: |
December 15, 2009 |
Imprint: |
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Language: |
English |
Author: |
Voltaire |
ISBN: |
9780714546599 |
Publisher: |
Alma Books |
Publication: |
December 15, 2009 |
Imprint: |
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Language: |
English |
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.
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.