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Thus Spake Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzsche

Translated by Thomas Common

BOOK TYPE
Literature
READING TIME
About 7.6 hours
WORDS
90,981
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After ten years spent in solitude, Zarathustra goes back amongst men to share his accumulated wisdom and prepare humanity for the Overman.

Philosophy

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  1. Titlepage
  2. Imprint
  3. Part I: Zarathustra’s Discourses
    1. Zarathustra’s Prologue
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
      5. V
      6. VI
      7. VII
      8. VIII
      9. IX
      10. X
    2. I: The Three Metamorphoses
    3. II: The Academic Chairs of Virtue
    4. III: Backworldsmen
    5. IV: The Despisers of the Body
    6. V: Joys and Passions
    7. VI: The Pale Criminal
    8. VII: Reading and Writing
    9. VIII: The Tree on the Hill
    10. IX: The Preachers of Death
    11. X: War and Warriors
    12. XI: The New Idol
    13. XII: The Flies in the Marketplace
    14. XIII: Chastity
    15. XIV: The Friend
    16. XV: The Thousand and One Goals
    17. XVI: Neighbour-Love
    18. XVII: The Way of the Creating One
    19. XVIII: Old and Young Women
    20. XIX: The Bite of the Adder
    21. XX: Child and Marriage
    22. XXI: Voluntary Death
    23. XXII: The Bestowing Virtue
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
  4. Part II
    1. XXIII: The Child with the Mirror
    2. XXIV: In the Happy Isles
    3. XXV: The Pitiful
    4. XXVI: The Priests
    5. XXVII: The Virtuous
    6. XXVIII: The Rabble
    7. XXIX: The Tarantulas
    8. XXX: The Famous Wise Ones
    9. XXXI: The Night-Song
    10. XXXII: The Dance-Song
    11. XXXIII: The Grave-Song
    12. XXXIV: Self-Surpassing
    13. XXXV: The Sublime Ones
    14. XXXVI: The Land of Culture
    15. XXXVII: Immaculate Perception
    16. XXXVIII: Scholars
    17. XXXIX: Poets
    18. XL: Great Events
    19. XLI: The Soothsayer
    20. XLII: Redemption
    21. XLIII: Manly Prudence
    22. XLIV: The Stillest Hour
  5. Part III
    1. XLV: The Wanderer
    2. XLVI: The Vision and the Enigma
      1. I
      2. II
    3. XLVII: Involuntary Bliss
    4. XLVIII: Before Sunrise
    5. XLIX: The Bedwarfing Virtue
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
    6. L: On the Olive-Mount
    7. LI: On Passing-By
    8. LII: The Apostates
      1. I
      2. II
    9. LIII: The Return Home
    10. LIV: The Three Evil Things
      1. I
      2. II
    11. LV: The Spirit of Gravity
      1. I
      2. II
    12. LVI: Old and New Tables
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
      5. V
      6. VI
      7. VII
      8. VIII
      9. IX
      10. X
      11. XI
      12. XII
      13. XIII
      14. XIV
      15. XV
      16. XVI
      17. XVII
      18. XVIII
      19. XIX
      20. XX
      21. XXI
      22. XXII
      23. XXIII
      24. XXIV
      25. XXV
      26. XXVI
      27. XXVII
      28. XXVIII
      29. XXIX
      30. XXX
    13. LVII: The Convalescent
      1. I
      2. II
    14. LVIII: The Great Longing
    15. LIX: The Second Dance-Song
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
    16. LX: The Seven Seals
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
      5. V
      6. VI
      7. VII
  6. Part IV
    1. LXI: The Honey Sacrifice
    2. LXII: The Cry of Distress
    3. LXIII: Talk with the Kings
      1. I
      2. II
    4. LXIV: The Leech
    5. LXV: The Magician
      1. I
      2. II
    6. LXVI: Out of Service
    7. LXVII: The Ugliest Man
    8. LXVIII: The Voluntary Beggar
    9. LXIX: The Shadow
    10. LXX: Noontide
    11. LXXI: The Greeting
    12. LXXII: The Supper
    13. LXXIII: The Higher Man
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
      5. V
      6. VI
      7. VII
      8. VIII
      9. IX
      10. X
      11. XI
      12. XII
      13. XIII
      14. XIV
      15. XV
      16. XVI
      17. XVII
      18. XVIII
      19. XIX
      20. XX
    14. LXXIV: The Song of Melancholy
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
    15. LXXV: Science
    16. LXXVI: Among Daughters of the Desert
      1. I
      2. II
    17. LXXVII: The Awakening
      1. I
      2. II
    18. LXXVIII: The Ass-Festival
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
    19. LXXIX: The Drunken Song
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
      5. V
      6. VI
      7. VII
      8. VIII
      9. IX
      10. X
      11. XI
      12. XII
    20. LXXX: The Sign
  7. Colophon
  8. Uncopyright

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SOURCE PUBLICATION DATE
2021-07-10
SOURCE EDITION UPDATED
2026-08-04
ADDED TO iREADALL
2026-10-13
Edition contributors
  • The League of Moveable Type (tyd)
  • Friedrich Nietzsche (aut)
  • Thomas Common (trl)
  • Albert Bierstadt (art)
  • Sue Asscher (trc)
  • David Widger (trc)
  • François Grandjean (bkp, blw, cov, mrk, pfr, tyg)
  • Robin Whittleton (pfr)
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