Nietzsche's masterpiece and one of the most controversial books in the history of European literature. A founding classic of modernism in philosophy and politics which promised to break 'the history of humanity in two'. Zarathustra, the sun worshipping prophet of the earliest strain of monotheism, returns to recant and condemn his own ideas in the name of a deity he calls the Ubermensch. He wanders through a strangely familiar land whose customs, laws and values have been mortgaged to religion and commerce. The people believe they exist at the summit of life.