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Buddha. (in the Weidenfeld and Nicolson 'Lives' series). [Inscribed copy]
by Karen Armstrong:
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/good+
- Seller
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Westleton, Suffolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London:: Weidenfeld and Nicolson,, 2000. First edition.. Hardcover. Good/good+. xxix, 188pp; with an Introduction, Notes, and a Glossary. Half title inscribed 'Marianne / With best wishes / Karen Armstrong'. Faint patches of yellow age toning to some pages, mostly confined to the pictorial endpapers, the signed page, and a few adjacent pages, and an erased pencilled price is discernible to the front endpaper. Marianne has marked several passages with lines in the margin, sometimes in pencil, sometimes biro, has made pencil notes on one page, and has underlined just one word on another. In the original green cloth-textured binding titled in gilt, clean, bright and firm. In the unclipped pictorial dust jacket, slightly sunned to the top edge and the edges of the spine, and with slight soiling to the lower panel. A good, used, - and signed! - copy.
Synopsis
With such bestsellers as A History of God and Islam , Karen Armstrong has consistently delivered ?penetrating, readable, and prescient? ( The New York Times ) works that have lucidly engaged a wide range of religions and religious issues. In Buddha she turns to a figure whose thought is still reverberating throughout the world 2,500 years after his death. Many know the Buddha only from seeing countless serene, iconic images. But what of the man himself and the world he lived in? What did he actually do in his roughly eighty years on earth that spawned one of the greatest religions in world history? Armstrong tackles these questions and more by examining the life and times of the Buddha in this engrossing philosophical biography. Against the tumultuous cultural background of his world, she blends history, philosophy, mythology, and biography to create a compelling and illuminating portrait of a man whose awakening continues to inspire millions.
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- Bookseller
- Chapel Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20000110
- Title
- Buddha. (in the Weidenfeld and Nicolson 'Lives' series). [Inscribed copy]
- Author
- Karen Armstrong:
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition.
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld and Nicolson,
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- 2000
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Westleton, Suffolk
About Chapel Books
I sell books from a large disused Chapel next to the village duck pond, where I have lived about 40 years: just inland from Dunwich and between Southwold and Aldeburgh. I open 7 days a week, 12-5.
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