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Friedrich Nietzsche · Translated by Thomas Common

Thus Spake Zarathustra

Read the speeches, encounters, and songs through which Zarathustra tests inherited values and the difficulties of teaching self-overcoming.

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Contents

Prologue
  1. Zarathustra's Prologue
Part I
  1. The Three Metamorphoses
  2. The Academic Chairs Of Virtue
  3. Backworldsmen
  4. The Despisers Of The Body
  5. Joys And Passions
  6. The Pale Criminal
  7. Reading And Writing
  8. The Tree On The Hill
  9. The Preachers Of Death
  10. War And Warriors
  11. The New Idol
  12. The Flies In The Market-Place
  13. Chastity
  14. The Friend
  15. The Thousand And One Goals
  16. Neighbour-Love
  17. The Way Of The Creating One
  18. Old And Young Women
  19. The Bite Of The Adder
  20. Child And Marriage
  21. Voluntary Death
  22. The Bestowing Virtue
Part II
  1. The Child With The Mirror
  2. In The Happy Isles
  3. The Pitiful
  4. The Priests
  5. The Virtuous
  6. The Rabble
  7. The Tarantulas
  8. The Famous Wise Ones
  9. The Night-Song
  10. The Dance-Song
  11. The Grave-Song
  12. Self-Surpassing
  13. The Sublime Ones
  14. The Land Of Culture
  15. Immaculate Perception
  16. Scholars
  17. Poets
  18. Great Events
  19. The Soothsayer
  20. Redemption
  21. Manly Prudence
  22. The Stillest Hour
Part III
  1. The Wanderer
  2. The Vision And The Enigma
  3. Involuntary Bliss
  4. Before Sunrise
  5. The Bedwarfing Virtue
  6. On The Olive-Mount
  7. On Passing-By
  8. The Apostates
  9. The Return Home
  10. The Three Evil Things
  11. The Spirit Of Gravity
  12. Old And New Tables
  13. The Convalescent
  14. The Great Longing
  15. The Second Dance-Song
  16. The Seven Seals
Part IV
  1. The Honey Sacrifice
  2. The Cry Of Distress
  3. Talk With The Kings
  4. The Leech
  5. The Magician
  6. Out Of Service
  7. The Ugliest Man
  8. The Voluntary Beggar
  9. The Shadow
  10. Noontide
  11. The Greeting
  12. The Supper
  13. The Higher Man
  14. The Song Of Melancholy
  15. Science
  16. Among Daughters Of The Desert
  17. The Awakening
  18. The Ass-Festival
  19. The Drunken Song
  20. The Sign

About this text

Friedrich Nietzsche · Translated by Thomas Common. Digital source: Project Gutenberg, ebook 1998. This reading text follows the edition used in our interactive reader.

Includes the prologue and all four parts of Nietzsche’s work in Thomas Common’s translation. Introductory essays and commentary by other writers in the source ebook are outside this reading text.

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