The Importance of Understanding: Translations from the Chinese
by Yutang, Lin
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good-
- Seller
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Vernon, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
A collection of short essays translated from various Chinese authors. The selections are grouped to these headings: human life, love and death, the seasons, nature, human adjustments, women, the home and daily living, art, literature, after tea and wine, ancient wit, fools to this world, wisdom, Zen and epigrams and proverbs. Includes table of contents in the hand of the author. Text block is unmarked.
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- Bookseller
- VFOL UsedBooks (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2208002
- Title
- The Importance of Understanding
- Author
- Yutang, Lin
- Format/Binding
- Yellow boards, with author’s name in gold on cover. Boards sun faded with minor marks.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- World Publishing Co.
- Place of Publication
- Cleveland
- Date Published
- 1960
- Pages
- 494+
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Box6
- Bookseller catalogs
- China;
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....