Thoughts Out Of Season - Part One by Friedrich Nietzsche THE COMPLETE WORKS OF FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The First Complete and Authorised English Translation EDITED BY DR. OSCAR LEVY VOLUME ONE THOUGHTS OUT OF SEASON PART ONE _________________________________________________________________ Of the First Impression of One Thousand Copies this is No. 1 FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE THOUGHTS OUT OF SEASON PART I DAVID STRAUSS, THE CONFESSOR AND THE WRITER RICHARD WAGNER IN BAYREUTH TRANSLATED BY ANTHONY M. LUDOVICI _________________________________________________________________ CONTENTS. EDITORIAL NOTE NIETZSCHE IN ENGLAND (BY THE EDITOR) TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE TO DAVID STRAUSS AND RICHARD WAGNER IN REUTH DAVID STRAUSS, THE CONFESSOR AND THE WRITER RICHARD WAGNER IN BAYREUTH _________________________________________________________________ EDITORIAL NOTE. _______ THE Editor begs to call attention to some of the difficulties he had to encounter in preparing this edition of the complete works of Friedrich Nietzsche. Not being English himself, he had to rely upon the help of collaborators, who were somewhat slow in coming forward. They were also few in number; for, in addition to an exact knowledge of the German language, there was also required sympathy and a certain enthusiasm for the startling ideas of the original, as well as a considerable feeling for poetry, and that highest form of it, religious poetry.