About this title: Chuang Tzu considered, along with Lao Tzu, one of the great figures of early Taoist thought used parables and anecdotes, allegory, and paradox to illustrate that real happiness and freedom are found only in understanding the Tao or Way of nature, and dwelling in its unity. Thomas Mertons collection of poetic renderings taken from the Chinese classic that bears Chuang Tzus name conveys its spirit in a way no other translation has and was Mertons personal favourite among his more than fifty books.
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date Published: 1969
ISBN-13:9780811201032ISBN:0811201031
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Like new. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 159 p. Contains: Illustrations. New Directions Paperbook, 276. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Eighteenth Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1969
ISBN-13:9780811201032ISBN:0811201031
Description: Good+ Very slight cover wear. Underlining/highlighting/notes to approximately 6% of pgs only. Several pg corners are folded down. Spine is tight. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780811201032ISBN:0811201031
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 159 p. Contains: Illustrations. New Directions Paperbook, 276. Audience: General/trade. Trade paper near new. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date Published: 1969
ISBN-13:9780811201032ISBN:0811201031
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 159 p. Contains: Illustrations. New Directions Paperbook, 276. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780811201032ISBN:0811201031
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. FINE CONDITION-CLEAN AND TIGHT BOOK-SHIPS QUICKLY. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 159 p. Contains: Illustrations. New Directions Paperbook, 276. Audience: General/trade. FINE CONDITION-CLEAN AND TIGHT BOOK-SHIPS QUICKLY. NF-Way of Chuang Tzu, New Directions Publishing Corporation-SOFT COVER, 1988. 12TH PRINTING. Product Description-Working from existing translations, Thomas Merton composed a series of personal versions from his favorites among the classic ... read more
Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-13:9780811201032ISBN:0811201031
Description: Very Good. 0811201031 Light general wear, but a nice, clean, tight copy. Please compare our ratings and shop with confidence. Member, Antiquarian Book Dealers Association of SC. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780811201032ISBN:0811201031
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 159 p. Contains: Illustrations. New Directions Paperbook, 276. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: New Directions
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780811201032ISBN:0811201031
Description: Good. Cover has bumping, chips, tears at spine, scuffs, marks, residue-Marks on edge-Bumping pgs-Stamp on FFEP-Marks on pgs-Cracked. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation, NY
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780811201032ISBN:0811201031
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 159 p. Contains: Illustrations. New Directions Paperbook, 276. Audience: General/trade. A couple of tiny bumps around edges. Otherwise almost like new. read more
Binding: trade Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1969
ISBN-13:9780811201032ISBN:0811201031
Description: Near Fine. 5 x 8 trade paperback book. Black lettering on the white spine and cover. This re-creation of an ancient sage by a contemporary poet is presented with an introduction on the meaning of Taoism for the West today. Illustrated with early Chinese drawings. 159 pages. Light wear. Tight binding. Near Fine condition. read more
Edition: Illustrated.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780811201032ISBN:0811201031
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 159 p. Contains: Illustrations. New Directions Paperbook, 276. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co
Date Published: 1969
ISBN-13:9780811201032ISBN:0811201031
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: New Directions
Date Published: 1969-06-01
ISBN-13:9780811201032ISBN:0811201031
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corpor
Date Published: 1969
ISBN-13:9780811201032ISBN:0811201031
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"a reference book on my shelf, which I return to again and again. Chuang Tzu illustrates the way with fables rather than epigrams. More approachable than Lao Tzu, thought some stories can be as enigmatic as truisms. Not a book to read through cover to cover in one sitting, but rather a book to leave around, and pick a page at random whenever guidance is needed."
"I spent a couple of years reading and re-reading this book. I found some real truth in the deliberateness of Chuang Tzu - more so than with Lao Tzu. His writing (hopefully his articulateness is not too deeply a reflection of Merton's) contains elements of the ubiquitous human stench that is too often left out of prettier works. He didn't turn away from the human condition and smooth over the roughness of the journey. He sat squarely, naked, in wet mud and banged his drum with glee. I felt so strongly about this book I tore it into shreds and dumped it in the garbage. I would have given this book six stars, but never five."
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