Micromegas and Other Short Fictions
Author: VOLTAIRE, FRANCOIS
ISBN: 9780140446869
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 12 Jul 2002
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback / softback
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.
ISBN: 9780140446869
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 12 Jul 2002
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback / softback
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.
