NIETZSCHE (Friedrich).
Thus Spake Zarathustra. A Book for All and None.
NIETZSCHE'S DEFINING WORK
The first English translation of Nietzsche’s defining philosophical work. A sprawling, rhapsodic work, written primarily in prose, Zarathustra served as a thunderous announcement of Nietzsche’s mature philosophy. Under the guise of the central character Zarathustra, a re-invention and subversion of his namesake, Nietzsche expounds his declamatory message of the Übermensch, the death of God, and the transvaluation of all values.
The present English translation was first published in 1896 as the eighth volume of a projected eleven volume set of Nietzsche’s collected works, although confusingly it was in fact only the second title published in the series overall. The remaining unsold sheets of the first edition were purchased by the publisher T. Fisher Unwin, who re-issued the book in 1899 with a new title page and modified the binding with their imprint on the spine - the present example is therefore the second issue of the first edition. An American edition had also been published in 1896 by the Macmillan Company in New York.
PMM, 370 (first edition).
