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New Delhi, India: Penguin, 2008. ‘They read beautifully. The translations are witty, terse, spare, memorable. At last the Ga-tha-saptas'ati- has found a translator.?A.K. Ramanuja… More...
New Delhi, India: Penguin, 2008. ‘They read beautifully. The translations are witty, terse, spare, memorable. At last the Ga-tha-saptas'ati- has found a translator.?A.K. Ramanujan The Ga-tha-saptas'ati- is perhaps the oldest extant anthology of poetry from South Asia, containing our very earliest examples of secular verse. Reputed to have been compiled by the Sa-tava-hana king Ha-la in the second century CE, it is a celebrated collection of 700 verses in Maharashtri Pra-krit, composed in the compact, distilled ga-tha- form. The anthology has attracted several learned commentaries and now, through Arvind Krishna Mehrotra’s acclaimed translation of 207 verses from the anthology, readers of English at last have access to its poems. The speakers are mostly women and, whether young or old, married or single, they touch on the subject of sexuality with frankness, sensitivity and, every once in a while, humour, which never ceases to surprise. The Absent Traveller includes an elegant and stimulating translator’s note and an afterword by Martha Ann Selby that provides an admirable introduction to Pra-krit literature in general and the Ga-tha-saptas'ati- in particular. Printed Pages: 120.. First Edition. Paperback. New. 15 x 23 Cm., Penguin, 2008, New Delhi, India: Penguin, 2008. ‘They read beautifully. The translations are witty, terse, spare, memorable. At last the Ga-tha-saptas'ati- has found a translator.’—A.K. Ramanujan The Ga-tha-saptas'ati- is perhaps the oldest extant anthology of poetry from South Asia, containing our very earliest examples of secular verse. Reputed to have been compiled by the Sa-tava-hana king Ha-la in the second century CE, it is a celebrated collection of 700 verses in Maharashtri Pra-krit, composed in the compact, distilled ga-tha- form. The anthology has attracted several learned commentaries and now, through Arvind Krishna Mehrotra’s acclaimed translation of 207 verses from the anthology, readers of English at last have access to its poems. The speakers are mostly women and, whether young or old, married or single, they touch on the subject of sexuality with frankness, sensitivity and, every once in a while, humour, which never ceases to surprise. The Absent Traveller includes an elegant and stimulating translator’s note and an afterword by Martha Ann Selby that provides an admirable introduction to Pra-krit literature in general and the Ga-tha-saptas'ati- in particular. Printed Pages: 120.. First Edition. Paperback. New. 15 x 23 Cm., Penguin, 2008, Penguin Books India/Penguin Classics, 2008. Softcover. New. They read beautifully. The translations are witty, terse, spare, memorable. At last the Gathasaptasati has found a translator.’—A.K. Ramanujan The Gathasaptasati is perhaps the oldest extant anthology of poetry from South Asia, containing our very earliest examples of secular verse. Reputed to have been compiled by the Satavahana king Hala in the second century CE, it is a celebrated collection of 700 verses in Maharashtri Prakrit, composed in the compact, distilled gatha form. The anthology has attracted several learned commentaries and now, through Arvind Krishna Mehrotra’s acclaimed translation of 207 verses from the anthology, readers of English at last have access to its poems. The speakers are mostly women and, whether young or old, married or single, they touch on the subject of sexuality with frankness, sensitivity and, every once in a while, humour, which never ceases to surprise. The Absent Traveller includes an elegant and stimulating translator’s note and an afterword by Martha Ann Selby that provides an admirable introduction to Prakrit literature in general and the Gathasaptasati in particular. Printed Pages: 120., Penguin Books India/Penguin Classics, 2008, Penguin Books India/Penguin Classics, 2008. Softcover. New. They read beautifully. The translations are witty, terse, spare, memorable. At last the Gathasaptasati has found a translator.’—A.K. Ramanujan The Gathasaptasati is perhaps the oldest extant anthology of poetry from South Asia, containing our very earliest examples of secular verse. Reputed to have been compiled by the Satavahana king Hala in the second century CE, it is a celebrated collection of 700 verses in Maharashtri Prakrit, composed in the compact, distilled gatha form. The anthology has attracted several learned commentaries and now, through Arvind Krishna Mehrotra’s acclaimed translation of 207 verses from the anthology, readers of English at last have access to its poems. The speakers are mostly women and, whether young or old, married or single, they touch on the subject of sexuality with frankness, sensitivity and, every once in a while, humour, which never ceases to surprise. The Absent Traveller includes an elegant and stimulating translator’s note and an afterword by Martha Ann Selby that provides an admirable introduction to Prakrit literature in general and the Gathasaptasati in particular. Printed Pages: 120., Penguin Books India/Penguin Classics, 2008, Penguin Books July 6, 2000. 8vo softcover 312pp very good. Perched high atop his pedestal in London, Admiral Horatio Nelson has remained one of the loftiest icons of English nationalism. Now, however, he has been seriously rattled by Barry Unsworth's Losing Nelson, a gripping study of the dark side of heroism and hero worship. In the basement of his large, anonymous North London house, Charles Cleasby obsessively reenacts the admiral's every military maneuver: "Usually when we fought these battles I had a feeling of fulfilment, they brought me closer to him..." Cleasby's admiration also extends upstairs--to his life's work, a biography of the great man. His only assistant in his heroic struggle is Miss Lily (real name, Lilian Butler), a hired secretary who carefully transcribes his painstaking pages. Cleasby wants nothing better than to rescue Nelson from the revisionist clutches of unpatriotic academic cynics. Alas, his passion soon reveals a sinister side, as he declares that he is in fact the admiral's twin: I will say what I think angels are. They can be dark or bright, but they all have the gift of spontaneity, of creating themselves anew. This is a pure form of energy, and Horatio was winged with it. All the same, angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognize each other. Sometimes, as with Horatio and me, the pairing occurs over spaces of time or distance. He became a bright angel on February 14, 1797, during the Battle of Cape St. Vincent. I became his dark twin on September 9, 1997, when I too broke the line. As the book builds to its inexorable climax--and Cleasby's only solace is his amanuensis--Losing Nelson confirms Unsworth as one of England's most elegant, understated novelists. His historical grasp of Nelson is outstanding. But his book really excels, and also profoundly disturbs, in its exploration of the tarnished angels of patriotism. --Jerry Brotton --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.nnFrom Publishers WeeklynUnsworth (Sacred Hunger; Morality Play) delivers another memorable tour de force in this tense portrait of a London man obsessed with Britain's greatest naval hero, Lord Nelson. Charles Cleasby lives by the "Horatio calendar," reenacting Nelson's battles with model shops on a glass table in his basement. In his mind they are joined: Nelson is a radiant angel, a hero of unstained virtue, and he is Nelson's other, shadow side: "I was his heir, I had inherited his being." For years Cleasby has been writing a book extolling Nelson's heroism, but has become blocked over a controversial incident in June 1799, when Nelson apparently tricked two fortresses of Neapolitan rebels into surrendering, under promise of a safe conduct, then turned them over to their murderous Bourbon king and queen for hanging. Unsworth's control of his material, and his artistic ingenuity, his narrative skill in what is essentially a highly literate suspense novel, are supreme here. By compressing the milestones of one man's lifetime into the calendar of another man's year, he creates a shuffled chronology of historical events that parallels his narrator's wavering state of mind. Paragraph by paragraph, Cleasby's sense of self shifts and dissolves; in one paragraph he describes the view of Nelson's ship entering Naples harbor, in the next "we" are standing at its prow, and in the next it's "I" onto whose arm Lady Hamilton is swooning. Cleasby's erotic stirrings for Emma Hamilton and his misadventures with London's Nelson Club are the stuff of high comedy, and it's hard to say exactly why this novel seems so unsettling and suspenseful. Unsworth holds open a door to normalcy in Cleasby's growing attraction to Miss LilyAhired to transcribe his manuscript to a word processorAwhose down-to-earth and very contemporary responses put Nelson on a more human scale. The book's surprise ending, held back to the final ., Penguin Books July 6, 2000, Penguin Classics, Great Britain, 1988. Softcover. Good Condition. Written in AD 731, Bede's work opens with a background sketch of Roman Britain's geography and history. It goes on to tell of the kings and bishops, monks and nuns who helped to develop Anglo-Saxon government and religion during the crucial formative years of the English people. Leo Sherley-Price's translation brings us an accurate and readable version, in modern English, of a unique historical document. This edition now includes Bede's Letter to Egbert concerning pastoral care in early Anglo-Saxon England, at the heart of which lay Bede's denunciation of the false monasteries; and The Death of Bede, an admirable eye-witness account by Cuthbert, monk and later Abbot of Jarrow, both translated by D. H. Farmer. 364 pages. Covered in non removable plastic covering. Ex-Libris pasted in. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Religion, Theology; Religion & Theology; history. ISBN: 0140440429. ISBN/EAN: 9780140440423. Inventory No: 233449. . 9780140440423, Penguin Classics, 1988, New York: Penguin Books, 1946. 184 pp. First Thus - Penguin Book 595. Light edge and corner wear with a crease on the front hinge and an uncreased spine; no interior markings; slightly darkened in the text block. Cover art by Loew. This collection contains: The Proem; Fox in the Morning; The Lotus and the Bottle; Smith; Caught; Cupid's Exile Number Two; The Phonograph and the Graft; Money Maze; The Admiral; The Flag Paramount; The Shamrock and the Palm; The Remnants of the Code; Shoes; Ships; Masters of Arts; Dicky; Rouge et Noir; Two Recalls; and The Vitagraphoscope.. First Printing - First Thus. Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Loew;., Penguin Books, 1946, Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1983. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Introduction and notes by Simon Keynes and Michael Lapidge. Alfred the Great is best known as the king who burnt the cakes, but he was also famous for other achievements. As king of Wessex from 871 to 899, he strove to emulate those kings of the past who, in his own words, had 'succeeded both in warfare and in wisdom'. He led the battle against the Viking invaders of England, and presided over the revival of religion and learning among his people: his reputation is a measure of his success. Asser was a monk of St. David's, in Wales, who entered King Alfred's service and eventually became Bishop of Sherborne. His Life of King Alfred, written in 893, is a remarkable account of the king's activities in peace and war, and testifies to the admiration that Alfred inspired in those around him. The other contemporary sources include annals from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, King Alfred's laws, his will, and extracts from his own writings. Taken with Asser's Life, they create a vivid picture of kingship, warfare and learning in Anglo-Saxon England. The cover shows the late ninth-century Alfred Jewel, inscribed AELFRED MEC HEHT GEWYRCAN (,Alfred ordered me to be made'), reproduced by kind permission of the Trustees of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 368 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Page edges a little browned with age. Top edge greyed with dust marks. White titles spine. Minor crease to front cover top corner. Includes index, notes & references. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: History; Classics; Anglo Saxons; Politics & Government; Britain/UK; Early (0-1000 AD); Biography & Autobiography. Dewey Code: 843.8. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3507. ., Penguin Books Ltd, 1983, Penguin Classic Biography, 2002. First Separate. Paperback. Good Condition. QUITE GOOD READING COPY 2ND IMPRESSION 2002 PENGUIN CLASSIC HISTORY PAPERBACK, TERRIFIC COVER PORTRAIT, WITH PHOTO SECTION. VALUABLE STUDY OF THIS MUCH-ADMIRED KING. SOME SPINE CREASES, A LITTLE TOP CORNER CREASING TO SOME PAGES, PAGE EDGES DISCOLORED IN PLACES, QUITE GOOD UNMARKED READING COPY. 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