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Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way

Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way

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In this landmark modern-day rendition of the ancient Taoist classic, Ursula K. Le Guin presents Lao Tzu’s time-honored and astonishingly powerful philosophy like never before. Drawing on a lifetime of contemplation and including extensive personal commentary throughout, she offers an unparalleled window into the text’s awe-inspiring, immediately relatable teachings and their inestimable value for our troubled world.
Lao Tzu

Lao Tzu

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Not much is known about the legendary Lao Tzu, to whom authorship of the Tao Te Ching is popularly attributed. Some scholars believe the author was an elder contemporary of Confucius.

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Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin

Author Bio

URSULA K. LE GUIN (1929–2018) is an internationally celebrated author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, and essays, including The Left Hand of Darkness, Always Coming Home, and the Earthsea Cycle series. Her numerous literary awards include six Nebula Awards, seven Hugo Awards, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Grand Master Award, and the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

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Praise for the book

“Each day I open this book at random and receive a contemplative gift. These words are akin to water in the desert.”

a delight. There is something startlingly fresh and creatively alive here

brought forth by Ms. Le Guin’s intuitive and personal ingenuity.”

“Among the many translations of Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching , Ursula K. Le Guin’s new version is a special treasure

“A student of the Tao for several decades, Le Guin has created an English text that will speak to modern readers in a fresh and lively way, while conveying the humor, insight, and beauty of the original.”

as much for the ancient substance as for Le Guin’s stylistic splendor.”

“The type of work which the great Polish poet and Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska meant when she spoke of ‘that rare miracle when a translation stops being a translation and becomes . . . a second original.’ . . . The whole of Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching is well worth savoring
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way

Lao Tzu, Ursula K. Le Guin

Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way

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