
Ramayana
William Buck(Author)
University of California Press
3rd Edition
Published on 8. June 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
388 pages
978-0-520-38338-8 (ISBN)
Description
An elegant translation of the beloved epic tale of Prince Rama
Few works of literature have inspired so vast an audience across so many radically different languages and cultures as the Ramayana, written in Sanskrit over 2,000 years ago by a poet known to us as Valmiki. William Buck has retold the story of Prince Rama-with all its nobility of spirit, courtly intrigue, heroic renunciation, fierce battles, and triumph of good over evil-in a length and with a style that make the great epic accessible without compromising the spirit and lyricism of the original.
Few works of literature have inspired so vast an audience across so many radically different languages and cultures as the Ramayana, written in Sanskrit over 2,000 years ago by a poet known to us as Valmiki. William Buck has retold the story of Prince Rama-with all its nobility of spirit, courtly intrigue, heroic renunciation, fierce battles, and triumph of good over evil-in a length and with a style that make the great epic accessible without compromising the spirit and lyricism of the original.
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Series
Edition
3rd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
40 illustrations, 1 map
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
338 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-38338-8 (9780520383388)
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Persons
William Buck was a Sanskritist who devoted his life's work to modern retellings of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata as well as the Harivamsa, which remained unfinished at the time of his death in 1970.