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Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

Read by multiple LibriVox volunteers · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License · Translated by Thomas Common

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Chapters

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00 - Zarathustra's Prologue (35:29)
01 - The Three Metamorphoses (5:20)
02 - The Academic Chairs of Virtue (6:27)
03 - Backworldsmen (7:58)
04 - Despisers of the Body (5:04)
05 - Joys and Passions (4:31)
06 - The Pale Criminal (4:40)
07 - Reading and Writing (3:23)
08 - The Tree on the Hill (5:26)
09 - The Preachers of Death (3:30)
10 - War and Warriors (3:40)
11 - The New Idol (5:34)
12 - The Flies in the Marketplace (5:53)
13 - Chastity (2:22)
14 - The Friend (5:13)
15 - The Thousand and One Goals (5:11)
16 - Neighbor-Love (4:21)
17 - The Way of the Creating One (7:06)
18 - Old & Young Women (5:52)
19 - The Bite of the Adder (5:08)
20 - Child and Marriage (4:09)
21 - Voluntary Death (7:41)
22 - The Bestowing Virtue (13:49)
23 - The Child with the Mirror (6:00)
24 - In the Happy Isles (6:32)
25 - The Pitiful (6:54)
26 - The Priests (6:06)
27 - The Virtuous (7:23)
28 - The Rabble (6:25)
29 - The Tarantulas (7:36)
30 - The Famous Wise Ones (6:35)
31 - The Night-Song (4:46)
32 - The Dance-Song (5:50)
33 - The Grave-Song (7:35)
34 - Self-Surpassing (8:04)
35 - The Sublime Ones (5:54)
36 - The Land of Culture (6:04)
37 - Immaculate Perception (6:28)
38 - Scholars (4:26)
39 - Poets (7:17)
40 - Great Event (8:32)
41 - The Soothsayer (9:55)
42 - Redemption (12:49)
43 - Manly Prudence (7:28)
44 - The Stillest Hour (9:16)
45 - The Wanderer (9:21)
46 - The Vision and the Enigma (14:06)
47 - Involuntary Bliss (8:21)
48 - Before Sunrise (7:51)
49 - The Bedwarfing Virtue (12:57)
50 - On the Olive Mount (7:52)
51 - On Passing-by (7:27)
52 - The Apostates (12:29)
53 - The Return Home (12:08)
54 - The Three Evil Things (15:11)
55 - The Spirit of Gravity (10:44)
56 - Old and New Tables (44:45)
57 - The Convalescent (16:13)
58 - The Great Longing (7:22)
59 - The Second Dance-Song (8:48)
60 - The Seven Seals (8:00)
61 - The Honey Sacrifice (11:46)
62 - The Cry of Distress (9:54)
63 - Talk With the Kings (10:26)
64 - The Leech (9:24)
65 - The Magician (14:47)
66 - Out of Service (13:37)
67 - The Ugliest Man (14:43)
68 - The Voluntary Beggar (13:47)
69 - The Shadow (9:57)
70 - Noon-Tide (8:54)
71 - The Greeting (15:58)
72 - The Supper (6:38)
73 - The Higher Man (26:29)
74 - The Song of Melancholy (8:55)
75 - Science (8:02)
76 - Among Daughters of the Desert (10:11)
77 - The Awakening (7:48)
78 - The Ass Festival (10:03)
79 - The Drunken Song (20:24)
80 - The Sign (8:32)

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