Edition: Edition or Printing Not Stated
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Random House, Incorporated, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780394714660ISBN:0394714660
Description: Good Plus Plus. No Jacket. 7 1/4 X 4 1/4. Pages are tight, clear & clean. Binding very firm and straight. Page edges and corners very good. No conspicuous wear. Slight crease back cover. If needed for reference, research, analysis, lucubrations or just enjoyment this is the one. Insignificant underlining in ink. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1/12/1983
ISBN-13:9780394714660ISBN:0394714660
Description: New. Paperback. Enjoyable reading copy for your personal pleasure. This copy is nearly flawless! Cover has barely noticeable shelf wear. You are buying a Book in NEW condition with very light shelf wear to include very light edge and corner wear. Buy it Now! ! ! As always, thank you for buying this book from International Book Source, YOUR ONE source FOR ALL your BOOK related NEEDS. Please remember to CHOOSE carefully how QUICKLY you would like to RECEIVE this material FAST, or standard (on ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1983-01-12
ISBN-13:9780394714660ISBN:0394714660
Description: Like New. Excellent condition (bent page corners on several pages, otherwise in mint/pristine condietion). Pages are crisp and clean with a tight spine. read more
Description: Good. Only lightly used. Book has minimal wear to cover and binding. A few pages may have small creases and minimal underlining. Book selection as BIG as Texas. read more
Edition: Vintage Edition, February 1983
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Vintage, New York
Date Published: 1962
ISBN-13:9780394714660ISBN:0394714660
Description: Good. Wraps bumped at corners with general light soil and slight curling. Few marginal notes to text pages. Edited by Louis Fischer. "Gandhi was a unique person, a great person, perhaps the greatest figure of the last nineteen hundred years. And his words have been preserved as they came from his mouth and pen. " read more
"This is an interesting book on Gandhi's perspectives and life's work, but not as good as his autobiographical "My Experiments With the Truth", which was more of a narrative and flowed much better. This book felt pastiched and scattered, though I did learn some things I didn't get from the aforementioned other work (e.g., he was adamantly against being called "Mahatma"). Overall, it's a worthwhile read, but I'd get "My Experiments" first if you're just getting into Gandhi."
"I never knew that much about Gandhi's philosophy and history until I read this book, but I thought the way they outlined everything the book itself was a bit repetitive."
"Don't take my rating the wrong way. As I expected them to be the writings of Gandhi were overwhelming, and caused much introspection for me, but this particular compilation left much to be desired. The editing was poor, and it tended toward taking a paragraph here and there from different writings and pasting them together. I am always leery of writings pasted like this, often intentionally or unintentionally the original direction of the piece is cut away, leaving side notes or worse.
"The editor invaded this book. I barely got through the first chapter because it felt so man-handled; molested, even. Th editing felt like such an insult to the idea of Gandhi. Gandhi wrote and spoke in the moment; that was how he practiced truth. I forget who edited this, but whoever did claimed to be an expert in Gandhi. If he was such an expert, how could he bring himself to do the exact opposite of what Gandhi strived to do? It was simply blasphemous.
I'd prefer to read Gandhi's "My experiments with the truth" in Gandhi's own words, just as he wrote it and as he intended to share it."
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