Description
| Product ID: | 9780140446869 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Micromegas and Other Short Fictions |
| Authors: | Author: Francois Voltaire, Theo Cuffe |
| Page Count: | 208 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Short stories, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Short stories |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A comprehensive selection of Voltaire's very brief contes and melanges: tiny feats of narrative compression, each often no more than a few pages long. Their genre is something between a tale and a polemic - more gestures than stories. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2002-05-30 |
