{"product_id":"9781847493798","title":"Micromegas : Newly Translated and Annotated by Douglas Parmee","description":"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.   At once a story-length Bildungsroman and a philosophical tale, `Micromegas' is a classic Enlightenment text, and is accompanied in this volume by thirteen other pieces - including `Plato's Dream' and `Memnon' - all in a new translation by acclaimed French specialist Douglas Parm?e.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56307910410613,"sku":"9781847493798","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781847493798.jpg?v=1762805761","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781847493798","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}