| Description |
1 online resource (337 pages). |
| Series |
Space Travel Before Space Travel anthology |
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Space Travel Before Space Travel anthology.
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BiblioBoard Core module.
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| Note |
Volume 1 |
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Original document: Book. |
| Contents |
I. Zadig. The world as it goes. Micromegas. The white bull. Travels of Scarmentado. How far we ought to impose upon the people. The two comfortors. Princess of Babylon. Memnon, the philosopher. Plato's dream. Bababec. [A conversation with a Chinese] The black and the white.--II. Candid; or, The optimist. The Huron, or pupil of nature. Jeannot and Colin. What pleases the ladies. The education of a prince. The education of a daughter. The three mansers. Thelema and Macareus. Azolan. The origin of trades. |
| Summary |
This collection of shorter pieces by French writer and philosopher Voltaire includesℓ"Micromégas,"ℓone of the first works of science fiction,ℓin whichℓambassadors from another planet witness the follies of humankind. |
| Note |
GMD: electronic resource. |
| Added Author |
Dodesley, P., bookseller.
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