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The Secret History of The Mongols & Other Works

By Arthur Waley

Book information

Publisher
House of Stratus
Year
2010
ISBN
9780755122769, 0755116046, 9780755116041, 0755122771, 9780755122776, 0755119428, 9780755119424, 0755122763
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
628 kB (642960 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-11-01 17:25:52
Essays; History; Language Arts; Nonfiction; HIS008

Description

In this unforgettable book, Arthur Waley brings together a number of his articles, poems and translations. Included in this collection are pieces on the eighth-century Chinese poet Ts'en Shên and the great Chinese prose writer, Han Yü, as well as some of Waley's original poems and stories. But the most compelling is The Secret History of the Mongols, consisting of long extracts from a thirteenth-century Chinese saga. Written in vivid, elegant prose, it recounts fantastic tales of epic battles; of betrayal and love; of tyrants and prisoners. Suffused with symbolism and folklore, it is a masterpiece of storytelling which will appeal to the scholar and the ordinary reader alike.

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