\047The profoundest book there is, born from the innermost richness of truth, an inexhaustible well into which no bucket descends without coming up with gold and goodness.\047 Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885) was Nietzsche\047s own favourite among all his books and has proved to be his most popular, having sold millions of copies in many different languages. In it he addresses the problem of how to live a fulfilling life in a world without meaning, in the aftermath of \047the death of God\047. Nietzsche\047s solution lies in the idea of eternal recurrence which he calls \047the highest formula of affirmation that can ever be attained\047. A successful engagement with this profoundly Dionysian idea enables us to choose clearly among the myriad possibilities that existence offers, and thereby to affirm every moment of our lives with others on this \047sacred\047 earth. This translation of Zarathustra (the first new English version for over forty years) conveys the musicality of the original German, and for the first time annotates the abundance of allusions to the Bible and other classic texts with which Nietzsche\047s masterpiece is in conversation.