Thus Spake Zarathustra is a philosophical novel by Friedrich Nietzsche, exploring themes of individuality, truth, and the transformation of the human spirit through the character Zarathustra. The book is famous for introducing the concept of 'overman' and the death of God.

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Zarathustra’s Prologue

I: The Three Metamorphoses

II: The Academic Chairs of Virtue

III: Backworldsmen

IV: The Despisers of the Body

V: Joys and Passions

VI: The Pale Criminal

VII: Reading and Writing

VIII: The Tree on the Hill

IX: The Preachers of Death

X: War and Warriors

XI: The New Idol

XII: The Flies in the Marketplace

XIII: Chastity

XIV: The Friend

XV: The Thousand and One Goals

XVI: Neighbour-Love

XVII: The Way of the Creating One

XVIII: Old and Young Women

XIX: The Bite of the Adder

XX: Child and Marriage

XXI: Voluntary Death

XXII: The Bestowing Virtue

Part I: Zarathustra’s Discourses

XXIII: The Child with the Mirror

XXIV: In the Happy Isles

XXV: The Pitiful

XXVI: The Priests

XXVII: The Virtuous

XXVIII: The Rabble

XXIX: The Tarantulas

XXX: The Famous Wise Ones

XXXI: The Night-Song

XXXII: The Dance-Song

XXXIII: The Grave-Song

XXXIV: Self-Surpassing

XXXV: The Sublime Ones

XXXVI: The Land of Culture

XXXVII: Immaculate Perception

XXXVIII: Scholars

XXXIX: Poets

XL: Great Events

XLI: The Soothsayer

XLII: Redemption

XLIII: Manly Prudence

XLIV: The Stillest Hour

Part II

XLV: The Wanderer

XLVI: The Vision and the Enigma

XLVII: Involuntary Bliss

XLVIII: Before Sunrise

XLIX: The Bedwarfing Virtue

L: On the Olive-Mount

LI: On Passing-By

LII: The Apostates

LIII: The Return Home

LIV: The Three Evil Things

LV: The Spirit of Gravity

LVI: Old and New Tables

LVII: The Convalescent

LVIII: The Great Longing

LIX: The Second Dance-Song

LX: The Seven Seals

Part III

LXI: The Honey Sacrifice

LXII: The Cry of Distress

LXIII: Talk with the Kings

LXIV: The Leech

LXV: The Magician

LXVI: Out of Service

LXVII: The Ugliest Man

LXVIII: The Voluntary Beggar

LXIX: The Shadow

LXX: Noontide

LXXI: The Greeting

LXXII: The Supper

LXXIII: The Higher Man

LXXIV: The Song of Melancholy

LXXV: Science

LXXVI: Among Daughters of the Desert

LXXVII: The Awakening

LXXVIII: The Ass-Festival

LXXIX: The Drunken Song

LXXX: The Sign

Part IV

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