title: Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All
author:  Friedrich Nietzsche 
description: The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Prussia in 1844. After the death of his father, a Lutheran minister, Nietzsche was raised from the age of five by his mother in a household of women. In 1869 he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel, where he taught until 1879 when poor health forced him to retire. He never recovered from a nervous breakdown in 1889 and died eleven years later. Known for saying that god is dead, Nietzsche propounded his metaphysical construct of the superiority of the disciplined individual (superman) living in the present over traditional values derived from Christianity and its emphasis on heavenly rewards. His ideas were appropriated by the Fascists, who turned his theories into social realities that he had never intended.
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  **Table of Contents**
  
   _Title Page_
  
   _Copyright Page_
  
   _Dedication_
  
   _Acknowledgements_
  
   _Introduction_
  
   _Bibliography_
  
    
  
  THE PORTABLE - NIETZSCHE
  
  THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA A BOOK FOR ALL AND NONE
  
    
  
  Thus Spoke Zarathustra: First Part
  
  Zarathustra’s Prologue
  
  Zarathustra’s Speeches
  
    
  
  Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Second Part
  
    
  
  Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Third Part
  
    
  
  Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Fourth and Last Part
  
  NOTE (1884)
  
  LETTERS
  
  NOTES
  
  FROM A DRAFT FOR A PREFACE
  
  FROM Beyond Good and Evil
  
  FROM The Gay Science: Book V
  
  FROM Toward a Genealogy of Morals
  
  LETTER TO OVERBECK
  
  NOTES (1887)
  
  LETTER TO HIS SISTER
  
  NOTES (1888)
  
  FROM The Wagner Case
  
  TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS - OR, HOW ONE PHILOSOPHIZES WITH A HAMMER
  
  THE ANTICHRIST
  
  FROM Ecce Homo - HOW ONE BECOMES WHAT ONE IS
  
  NIETZSCHE CONTRA WAGNER - OUT OF THE FILES OF A PSYCHOLOGIST
  
  LETTERS (1889)
  
    
  
  _Editions of Nietzsche_
  
   _THE VIKING PORTABLE LIBRARY_
  
   **THE VIKI