Satire

Micromegas

by Voltaire

Voltaire’s giant comes from a planet circling Sirius and is eight leagues tall; with a companion from Saturn he visits the Earth and finds, in the Baltic, a ship of philosophers so small that he has to look at them through a diamond. The tiny creatures turn out to know a great deal about the measure of things and nothing about themselves. Voltaire had lived in England and read Swift, and the tale of 1752 owes Gulliver a good deal.

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Reading time

About 30 minutes

Where to find it

Brobdingnag

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #30123. In the public domain in the United States.