Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None.

NIETZSCHE, Friedrich.

Item Number: 19008

London: H. Henry and Co, 1896.

First English edition of the author’s magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. An excellent near fine example with only light rubbing. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.

Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most famous and influential work. It describes how the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends from his solitude in the mountains to tell the world that God is dead and that the Superman, the human embodiment of divinity, is his successor. With blazing intensity and poetic brilliance, Nietzsche argues that the meaning of existence is not to be found in religious pieties or meek submission, but in an all-powerful life force.