Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche (1930)

Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche (1930) Publication Date: 1930 George Allan & Unwin 6th Edition Limited Edition individually numbered #353 of 1500 Translated from German by Thomas Common. Thus Spake Zarathustra, also translated as Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a treatise by Friedrich Nietzsche written in four parts and published in German between 1883 and 1885 as Also sprach Zarathustra. The work is incomplete, according to Nietzsche’s original plan, but it is the first thorough statement of Nietzsche’s mature philosophy and the masterpiece of his career. It received little attention during his lifetime, but its influence since his death has been considerable in the arts as well as philosophy. Written in the form of a prose narrative, Thus Spake Zarathustra offers the philosophy of its author through the voice of Zarathustra (based on the Persian prophet Zoroaster), who after years of meditation has come down from a mountain to offer his wisdom to the world. It is this wor