Everyman's library ny (146 risultati)
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Hard cover. Condizione: Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 256 p. Everyman's Library Pocket Poets. Audience: General/trade. No previous owner's name HC 185.
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Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine Dust Jacket. 363 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text free of markings.
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Da: Montana Book Company, Fond du Lac, WI, U.S.A.Montana Book Company
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good Dust Jacket. 395 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Very good dust jacket that is wrinkled along the top back edge. Jacket not price clipped.
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Da: Acorn Books Northwest, Silverdale, WA, U.S.A.Acorn Books Northwest
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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. A like-new copy, crisp and unmarked, pocket-sized (about 4.5 x 6 inches), red ribbon page marker.
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Da: Magers and Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.Magers and Quinn Booksellers
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hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.
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Da: Bluestocking Books, Bangor, PA, U.S.A.Bluestocking Books
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NY. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Cloth; Alfred A. Knopf; 1995. 0679443703 . Dust jacket good, Yellow cloth with gilt lettering, Very good, minor wear, date with form owner intials, 256 pgs . Very Good in Good dust jacket; Cloth; Alfred A. Knopf; 1995.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Everyman's Library, New York, NY, 1994
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Da: True Oak Books, Highland, NY, U.S.A.True Oak Books
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Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good-. Compilation Edition; Second Printing. Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series; 4.4 X 0.8 X 6.5 inches; 283 pages; moderate to heavy foxing on the exterior edges of textblock. Light foxing inside the DJ. Empty bookplate on FFEP. Very Good condition otherwise. No ot…her noteworthy defects. No markings.; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.
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Da: Conover Books, Martinsville, VA, U.S.A.Conover Books
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. Ex-library with the usual library markings (if not for the library markings this copy would be graded in fine condition); overall a nice used copy! Red boards with gilt on black lettering on the spine. 268 informative and historical pages nicely enhanced b…y black and white photographs and illustrations! "From one of the 20th century's great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time. Speak, Memory was first published by Vladimir Nabokov in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised and republished in 1966. The Everyman's Library edition includes, for the first time, the previously unpublished "Chapter 16"-the most significant unpublished piece of writing by the master, newly released by the Nabokov estate which provided an extraordinary insight into Speak, Memory. Nabokov's memoir is a moving account of a loving, civilized family, of adolescent awakenings, flight from Bolshevik terror, education in England, and émigré life in Paris and Berlin. The Nabokovs were eccentric, liberal aristocrats, who lived a life immersed in politics and literature on splendid country estates until their world was swept away by the Russian revolution when the author was eighteen years old. Speak, Memory vividly evokes a vanished past in the inimitable prose of Nabokov at his best.".
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Da: biblioboy, North Providence, RI, U.S.A.biblioboy
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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition; Tenth Printing. NY: Everyman's Library. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1995. First Edition; Tenth Printing. Hardcover. 9780679443704 256pp See photos clph.
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Da: Dogwood Books, Rome, GA, U.S.A.Dogwood Books
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. The cover shows light edgewear.
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Da: True Oak Books, Highland, NY, U.S.A.True Oak Books
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; Fifth Printing. Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series; 4.37 X 0.69 X 6.47 inches; 255 pages; Very Good condition. No noteworthy defects. No markings. ; Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will b…e packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.
Altre immaginiLingua: Inglese
Editore: NY. 1992. A.A. Knopf / Everyman's Library 64, 1992
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Da: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.Chris Fessler, Bookseller
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olive green full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo) with black & gilt decorative spine label and olive green silk marker ribbon. 1/2 of the dustwrapper in protective plastic cover. ink marked copy in good cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. this book has one line (!) of underlining on page 362, otherwise contents… free of markings. partial dustwrapper is only the front cover and flap, has scratches , not price clipped. nice reading or study copy (if not for the one line of inking, this would be in fine cond). no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, no remainder markings. decorative endpapers, 1/2 title, frontis. & title pg. xxxi+411p.+ list of publisher's other titles & colophon. bibliography. glossary of names. religion. philosophy. ancient literature. theology. psychology. poetry. ancient history. ancient india. vedas. upanishads. bhagavad gita. ~ Professor Zaehner has newly translated this important Everyman collection of representative writings from the main Hindu scriptures, and there are considerable differences between the original Everyman and the present edition. Professor Zaehner has varied the style of each translation to suit the genre translated throughout. He has also compiled this new selection with a view to easier comprehension, and giving relevance to the overall development of Hinduism from these canonical texts. It is a constantly repeated truism that all wisdom came from the East, and a great deal of it is embodied in the philosophy associated with religious belief. For a Western mind the most significant benefit emerging from a reading of these writings is that the hymns of the Rig~Veda do not read so much as 'commandments' enjoined by priests and prophets (identified in the European mind with oriental religions), but as 'a poetic testament of a people's collective reaction to the wonder and awe of existence'. The selections represent three successive stages in the history of ancient Hinduism. First are the eight translations of hymns from the Rig~Veda which in original sequence range perhaps from 1500 B.c. to 1200 B.c. They reveal a close contact with nature, and show early attempts to seek and discover the significance of the world and his life and existence within it. Professor Zaehner's selection is confined to those which are formative of later thought, and he has also added four hymns from the Atharva~Veda which bear out the same principles. The next stage, represented by the Upanishads, is the real core of all subsequent Hindu religion, for the Upanishads are the classic formulation of pantheistic mysticism which sees the cosmos as a unitary whole suffused and held together in and by One Reality which both transcends and indwells all things. Moreover some of the Upanishads have a tinge of irony, giving them an unexpectedly modern feeling. The final contribution is the Bhagavad~Gita ('The Lord's Song'), where a new religious environment is immediately sensed. Its hold on tradition is maintained through the form of the Vedic deity Vishnu, the Absolute manifesting itself in its incarnation as Krishna. For centuries the work has proved to be a 'spring of living religious emotion'. While its teaching is theistic, it is not unreservedly so~' it is a garland of many coloured beauties rather than a well~knit harmony of the truth'.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Everyman's Library; Alfred A. Knopf, NY, 2008
Serie: Libro 9 di 45 - Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series
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Da: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.Dorley House Books, Inc.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st. all three books in one volume; dj w/unclipped price, in mylar; Silk bookmark. clean, unmarked pages.
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Da: 2Vbooks, Derwood, MD, U.S.A.2Vbooks
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Hard cover. Condizione: Very good. No dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 320 p. Everyman's Library Children's Classics. Audience: Children/juvenile. LOOKS BRAND NEW WITH NICE RIBBON No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. No remainder mark. cb 92. Robinson, Charles (illustratore).
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Da: True Oak Books, Highland, NY, U.S.A.True Oak Books
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. Reissue Edition. Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series; 4.4 X 0.85 X 6.5 inches; 281 pages; very minor, faint smudge on the bottom exterior edge of textblock. Very Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings. DJ is not price-clipped.…; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.
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Da: True Oak Books, Highland, NY, U.S.A.True Oak Books
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Compilation Edition. Everyman's Library; 4.9 X 1.15 X 7.4 inches; 395 pages; DJ is not price-clipped. Minor foxing on the top exterior edge of textblock. Few tiny, faint smudges on the exterior edges of textblock. Very Good condition otherwise. No other noteworth…y defects. No markings. ; Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.
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Da: North Country Books, Milton, VT, U.S.A.North Country Books
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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Cherry red cloth hardcover, bright and clean, minor wear, tightly bound, unmarked with clean pages. Dust jacket with very light wear, clean, not price-clipped. xxxi, 509 pp.
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Da: Ye Old Bookworm, Odessa, TX, U.S.A.Ye Old Bookworm
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Stated Fifth printing. 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 256 pages; Bright yellow DJ lightly rubbed at edges, spine ends and corner tips. Mylar cover. Yellow boards lightly rubbed at edges, yellow ribbon bookmark attached. Book solid and tight. Text block clean and unmarked…. Previous gift not. Pages tight.
Editore: Everyman's Library, NY, 1964
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Da: Valley Books, AMHERST, MA, U.S.A.Valley Books
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Aggiungi al carrelloHardciover. Condizione: Fine-. #795. 334pp. Name on front flyleaf. Red cloth binding has slight wear only. Extensive underlining and marginal notes inn pen, morstly prior to page 108. Photos on request Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Everyman's Library / Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, 1992
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Da: Falls Bookstore, Readsboro, VT, U.S.A.Falls Bookstore
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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. No Edition Stated. Dark green cloth binding with black title box on spine, gold colored spine print. Green silk marker ribbon. Endpapers each have a l;ight yellow triangle with logo enclosed. Tight, sound and unmarked. 306 pages including section on Biographi…es. Dust cover is plastic slip-over with a paper half-jacket front panel and flap. Tiny notch in lower edge of front panel. Not price-clipped. Rousseau's "The Social Contract &* The discourses" is our # 10601 Size: 5 1/4 X 8 1/4.
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Da: True Oak Books, Highland, NY, U.S.A.True Oak Books
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good-. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good-. Reissue Edition. Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series; 255 pages; minor tear on DJ front's bottom corner. Minor discoloration on the top exterior edge of textblock. Minor smudges on DJ flaps. Very Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No…markings. ; Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.
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Da: True Oak Books, Highland, NY, U.S.A.True Oak Books
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good+. No Dust Jacket. Anthology. Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series; 4.4 X 0.84 X 6.5 inches; 256 pages; dedication from previous owner on front free endpaper. Light foxing on front and rear endpapers. Minor foxing on the top exterior edge of textblock. Minor yellowing on pages. Good condition otherwi…se. No other noteworthy defects. No markings on pages.; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.
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Da: Ghost River Rare and Used Books, Cremona, AB, CanadaGhost River Rare and Used Books
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Condizione: Good - V.good. Dutton, N.Y.: Dent Everyman's Library, 1980. 117 pages. The second of three volumes displaying Thomas's extraordinary versatility in poetry and prose. Five representative short stories containing his funniest piece. A very nice copy, no creases, no tears, no folds. Tight and unmarked. Mass Market Good…- V.good.
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Da: Gian Luigi Fine Books, albany, NY, U.S.A.Gian Luigi Fine Books
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Hardcover. Condizione: VG. Condizione sovraccoperta: VG.
Altre immaginiLingua: Inglese
Editore: NY. 1992. Alfred A. Knopf / Everyman's Library 75, 1992
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Da: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.Chris Fessler, Bookseller
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Hardcover. Condizione: As New. blue full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo) with black & gilt spine label and blue satin marker ribbon. no dustwrapper. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. satin marker ribbon in new condition. nice clean…copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first printing of this edition (First included in Everyman's Library, 1992 & nap). decorative endpapers. decorative title pg. xxxiii+299.+ colophon. select bibliography. chronology. 2 appendices. translator's note. fiction. novels. political philosophy. german literature. english literature. ~ Written during 1914~15, the book was published in 1925, a year after Franz Kafka's death. Its translation into English, by Edwin and Willa Muir, which followed in 1935, itself took on a classic aura. This is in one sense regrettable. Max Brod's recension of Kafka's text had been amateurish and at certain points, arbitrary. Despite its famous conclusion, The Trial remains unfinished and there is argument about the order of various chapters. Additional and cancelled matter has survived (and this can be found in the Appendix to the present edition). It is, however, the Muir version, with its stylistic distinction and freshness of encounter, which, so far as the English~language world goes, remains political philosophy.
Altre immaginiLingua: Inglese
Editore: NY/London/Toronto. 1992. Everyman's Library #61 / A.A. Knopf, 1992
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Da: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.Chris Fessler, Bookseller
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grey, black & gilt decorative full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo) with grey silk marker ribbon. no dustwrapper. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. marker ribbon in mint cond. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stick…ers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. 7th printing. decorative endpapers, frontis. & title pg. facsimile reproduction of original 1551 title page. xli+148p. +about the author & translator. chronology. bibliography. glossary. english literature. philosophy. novels. fiction. ~ First published in 1516, during a period of astonishing political and technological change, Sir Thomas More's UTOPIA depicts an imaginary society free of private property, sexual discrimination, and religious intolerance. Its radical humanism has had an incalculable effect on modern history, and the challenge of its vision is as insistent today as it was in the Renaissance.
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Da: Conover Books, Martinsville, VA, U.S.A.Conover Books
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. Ex-library with the usual library markings (if not for the library markings this copy would be graded in fine condition); overall a nice used copy! Red boards with gilt on black lettering on the spine. 1368 magical and historical pages! "Naguib Mahfouz's m…agnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for the first time. The Nobel Prize—winning writer's masterwork is the engrossing story of a Muslim family in Cairo during Britain's occupation of Egypt in the early decades of the twentieth century. The novels of The Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence. Palace Walk introduces us to his gentle, oppressed wife, Amina, his cloistered daughters, Aisha and Khadija, and his three sons the tragic and idealistic Fahmy, the dissolute hedonist Yasin, and the soul-searching intellectual Kamal. Al-Sayyid Ahmad's rebellious children struggle to move beyond his domination in Palace of Desire, as the world around them opens to the currents of modernity and political and domestic turmoil brought by the 1920s. Sugar Street brings Mahfouz's vivid tapestry of an evolving Egypt to a dramatic climax as the aging patriarch sees one grandson become a Communist, one a Muslim fundamentalist, and one the lover of a powerful politician. Throughout the trilogy, the family's trials mirror those of their turbulent country during the years spanning the two World Wars, as change comes to a society that has resisted it for centuries. Filled with compelling drama, earthy humor, and remarkable insight, The Cairo Trilogy is the achievement of a master storyteller.".
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Everyman's Library, NY, 1995
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Da: Daedalus Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.Daedalus Books
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Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. Later Printing. A nice, solid copy.; Everyman's Library; 135; 5.17 X 0.69 X 8.29 inches; 181 pages.
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Da: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.Dorley House Books, Inc.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. dj w/unclipped price, in mylar; red c w/gilt titles on black; 544 clean, unmarked pages.
Altre immaginiLingua: Inglese
Editore: London & NY. 4/1974. Dent / Dutton / Everyman's Library, 1956
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Da: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.Chris Fessler, Bookseller
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blue hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. price clipped dustwrapper in vg+ cond. 2cm tear at spine bottom, 1cm tear on rear, minor rubbing. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers…, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. printing # not given (1907 original). VOLUME ONE ONLY of the two volume set, covering Runos I~XXV. vii+327p. endnotes. mythology. poetry. ancient history. ancient literature. religion. folklore. hsitory of finland. ~ 'As the poem holds up its bright mirror to the life of the Finns moving among the first long shadows of medieval civilization it suggests in our minds the proto~twilight of Homeric Greece. Its historic background is the misty age of feud and foray between the people of Kaleva and their more ancient neighbours of Pohjola, possibly the Lapps. Poetically it recounts the long quest of that singular and prolific talisman, the Sampo, and ends upon the first note of Christianity, the introduction of which was completed in the fourteenth century. Heroic but human, its men and women march boldly through the fifty cantos, raiding, drinking, abducting, outwitting, weeping, but always active and always at odds with the very perils that confront their countrymen today: the forest, with its savage animals, its myriad lakes and rocks and torrents; wind, fire, and darkness; and the cold.' From the Introduction by J. B. C. Grundy. The picture on the front of this jacket by Akseli Gallen~Kallela illustrates the famous passage in the 'Kalevala' where the young poet Joukahainen, whose sister Vainamoinen had seduced, lies in wait for him. The old lady's arguments so disturb his aim that he fires three bolts and misses every time.
