Tao Te Ching: Lao Tzu

This is Arthur Waley's English version of the Tao Te Ching, the short ancient Chinese text attributed to Lao Tzu. The chapters offer compact sayings on the Way, softness, non-action, the uncarved block, and the conduct of rulers who govern by not forcing. Waley adds an introduction and notes that place the verses in late Zhou thought and in the language of the original. There is no narrative plot. The volume is a philosophical poem-cycle in translation with commentary, not a biography of a historical sage and not a manual of later Taoist ritual.

Three-quarter bound in brown cloth with a printed front board with an image of The old man of the Southern Pole. Dark red slipcase. 28cm.