Micromegas and Other Short Fictions (Penguin Classics)

by Francois Voltaire (Author), Francois Voltaire (Author), Theo Cuffe (Translator), Haydn Mason (Introduction)

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $10.50

  Something between a tale and a polemic, these fables of reason are feats of narrative compression and contain much of Voltaire's best and funniest writing. From ribald tales of adultery to conversations between cosmic travellers, the stories in this collection pose moral, philosophical and social questions. Reader and protagonist alike find their assumptions challenged as Voltaire mingles rationality and fantasy.

• New

  Paperback
  2002

  $14.50

  Something between a tale and a polemic, these fables of reason are feats of narrative compression and contain much of Voltaire's best and funniest writing. From ribald tales of adultery to conversations between cosmic travellers, the stories in this collection pose moral, philosophical and social questions. Reader and protagonist alike find their assumptions challenged as Voltaire mingles rationality and fantasy.