Gilgamesh: A New English Version
Stephen MitchellAn English-language rendering of the world's oldest epic poem seeks to convey the work's literary richness and follows the journey of conquest and self-discovery by the heroic king of Uruk, in an edition complemented by an introductio...
A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in H...
Stephen MitchellIn her first two books, Byron Katie showed how suffering can be ended by questioning the stressful thoughts that create it, through a process of self-inquiry she calls The Work. Now, in A Thousand Names for Joy, she encourages us to d...
Tao Te Ching: Illustrated Edition
Stephen Mitchell'What is rooted is easy to nourish What is recent is easy to correct'Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching (The Book of the Way) is the classic manual on the art of living. In 81 short, poetic chapters, the book looks at the basic predicament of bei...
"A twenty-first-century form of ancient wisdom . . . Mitchell's flights, his paradoxes, his wonderful riffs are brilliant and liberating." -Pico Iyer The most widely translated book in world literature after the Bible,...