Translated by Thomas Common.
Though misused by the German National Socialist party as a spurious justification of their creed, the book also had a profound influence on early twentieth-century writers such as Shaw, Mann, Gide, Lawrence and Sartre..
The intensely felt ideas are expressed in prose-poetry of indefinable beauty.
Nietzsche emphasises the Übermensch, or Superman, whose will to power makes him the creator of a new heroic mentality.
Christianity is decadent, leading mankind into a slave morality concerned not with this life, but with the next. \'God is dead\', he tells us.
This astonishing series of aphorisms, put into the mouth of the Persian sage Zarathustra, or Zoroaster, contains the kernel of Nietzsche\'s thought.
With an Introduction by Nicholas Davey.
Translated by Thomas Common
