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The Gay Science (German: <i>Die fröhliche Wissenschaft</i>) or occasionally translated as The Joyful Wisdom is a book by Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1882 and followed by a second edition, which was published after the completion of <i>Thus Spoke Zarathustra</i> and <i>Beyond Good and Evil</i>, in 1887. This substantial expansion includes a fifth book and an appendix of songs. It was noted by Nietzsche to be "the most personal of all [his] books", and contains the greatest number of poems in any of his published works.