Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Caspar David Friedrich, Giovanni Segantini and Ferdinand Hodler. A hermit comes down from ten years in the mountains to teach the death of God, the eternal return and the man who is to be overcome, and finds his listeners want a rope-dancer instead. Nietzsche wrote the four parts in bursts of ten days each between 1883 and 1885 and had the fourth printed privately in forty copies. He wrote it in the cadence of Luther's Bible in order to argue against it. Fifty-eight plates by painters including Caspar David Friedrich and Giovanni Segantini follow Zarathustra's mountain solitude through alpine peaks, fog, and noon light.