Authors: Lao Tzu, Stephen Mitchell
ISBN-13: 9780060160012, ISBN-10: 0060160012
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: October 1988
Edition: New English Version
Stephen Mitchell's many books include the bestselling Tao Te Ching, Gilgamesh, and The Second Book of the Tao, as well as The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, The Gospel According to Jesus, Bhagavad Gita, The Book of Job, and Meetings with the Archangel.
In eighty-one brief chapters, Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, provides advice that imparts balance and perspective, a serene and generous spirit, and teaches us how to work for the good with the effortless skill that comes from being in accord with the Tao—the basic principle of the universe.
Stephen Mitchell's bestselling version has been widely acclaimed as a gift to contemporary culture.
Beautiful and accessible; the English, as 'fluid as melting ice,' is a joy to read throughout.
Introduction | 1 | |
Tao Te Ching - Translation | 13 | |
Verbatim Translation | 95 | |
Notes on the Verbatim Translation | 256 | |
Commentary on Verse I | 271 | |
Definitions, Concordance, and Wade-Pinyin Conversion | 295 | |
List of Radicals | 337 | |
Appendix | Some of the Earliest English Translations of Verse One | 341 |
Sources | 345 |