Stephen Mitchell

Following the phenomenal success of his own version of the "Tao Te Ching," a renowned scholar and translator delivers a 21st-century form of ancient wisdom into the modern world.

Compiled and Adapted from the Chuang-tzu and the Chung Yung, with Commentaries

The Second Book of the Tao

rumbledethumps

This is a very personal book for the author, perhaps too personal. He selected and translated sections of two writers, Chuang-tzu and Tzu-ssu, and then added his own commentary for each section.

While I have enjoyed Mitchell's other translations, and found the selections he chose for this book to be interesting, the commentary for each section was rambling, filled with cliches, uninteresting and uninspired.

The Second Book of the Tao Compiled and Adapted from the Chuang-tzu and the Chung Yung, with Commentaries

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