Editore: Trubner and Co., Ludgate Hill., London, 1885
Da: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, Regno Unito
EUR 147,39
Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrello8vo. 7.75 x 5.25 inches. xiv + 573 pp. + [8] pp. publisher's advertisements. Bound in original mustard cloth, gilt. Rough cut edges. Extremities worn, including corners and head and tail of spine, which is darkened. and a little stained; otherwise a very good copy. A verse translation from the Sanskrit of the great Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita, by Edwin Arnold !832-1904). In India from 1856, he served as principal of the Deccan College, Poona before returning to England to become a journalist on the Daily Telegraph (editor 1873-88). His best known work was The Light of Asia (1879), an epic poem relating the life of Prince Gautama, founder of Buddhism. A second edition published in 1885, the same year as the first. THEOLOGY/HISTORY INDIA THEOLOGY- NON-CHRISTIAN ASIA POETRY 19TH CENTURY THEOLOGY/HISTORY.