Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu [U.K. PAPERBACK IMPORT] 1987 • Penguin Classics

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

VINTAGE U.K PAPERBACK [1987] PENGUIN CLASSICS

U.K. mass market paperback re-print. 

Book is in excellent condition. 

Tiny name and date written neatly on front endpaper.  Otherwise, like new with some inevitable tanning to pages.

'The Lao Tzu, as it is usually called, is the principal classic in the thought of Taoism.

'Traditionally ascribed to one Lao Tzu, an older contemporary of Confucius, the work is more probably an anthology of wise sayings compiled in about the fourth century BC.

As a treatise both on personal conduct and on government it is moral rather than mystical in tone, and advances a philosophy of meekness as the surest path to survival. In the clear English of D.C. Lau's translation this famous Chinese book can be enjoyed especially for it pure poetry.'