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Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation
by Mitchell, Stephen
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- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0609810340
- ISBN 13
- 9780609810347
- Seller
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
Three Rivers Press. Used - Very Good. May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.
Synopsis
Stephen Mitchell is widely known for his ability to make ancient masterpieces thrillingly new, to step in where many have tried before and create versions that are definitive for our time. His celebrated version of the Tao Te Ching is the most popular edition in print, and his translations of Jesus, Rilke, Genesis, and Job have won the hearts of readers and critics alike. Stephen Mitchell now brings to the Bhagavad Gita his gift for breathing new life into sacred texts.The Bhagavad Gita is universally acknowledged as one of the world's literary and spiritual masterpieces. It is the core text of the Hindu tradition and has been treasured by American writers from Emerson and Thoreau to T. S. Eliot, who called it the greatest philosophical poem after the Divine Comedy. There have been more than two hundred English translations of the Gita, including many competent literal versions, but not one of them is a superlative literary text in its own right.Now all that has changed. Stephen Mitchell's Bhagavad Gita sings with the clarity, the vigor, and the intensity of the original Sanskrit. It will, as William Arrowsmith said of Mitchell's translation of The Sonnets to Orpheus, "instantly make every other rendering obsolete."From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Magers and Quinn Booksellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 329708
- Title
- Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation
- Author
- Mitchell, Stephen
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0609810340
- ISBN 13
- 9780609810347
- Publisher
- Three Rivers Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- August 27, 2002
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