โ Scribed by Paulo Coelho
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Water. The ugly duckling / Andersen ; Prologue from Tales from the thousand and one nights ; from The prince / Machiavelli ; Looking-glass house from Through the looking glass / Carroll ; Forms and dispositions, from The art of war / Sun-tzu -- Earth. from De profundis / Wilde ; Dr. Seward's diary, from Dracula / Stoker ; from Eichmann and the holocaust / Arendt -- Selected poems / Yeats ; from Lady Chatterley's lover / Lawrence -- Air. Black man in a white man's court, from No easy walk to freedom / Mandela ; from One hundred years of solitude / Garcia Marquez ; Henry Jekyll's full statement of his case, from The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Stevenson ; from Nineteen eighty-four / Orwell ; The library of Babel, from Fictions / Borges -- Fire. Hymns to Agni, god of the sacrifice, from the Rig Veda ; Visions, from The desert fathers : sayings of the early Christian monks ; from The Bhagavad Gita ; from The Dead Sea scrolls ; from Venus in furs / Sacher-Masoch ; from The prophet / Gibran ; from Spiritual verses / Rumi ; Brahma, Visnu, Siva, from Selected poems / Tagore ; from Frankenstein / Shelley.;'Anthology' comes from the Greek word that stands for garlands - a bouquet of flowers. An anthology then, should be a sort of reminder of something else, a small token of something much larger. In the case of flowers, they bring with their fragrance and colorfulness the reminder of the fields, of a season. Coelho's anthology, therefore, is not only a collection of texts or poems, but a gift, something arranged according to his sensitivities, to give to others. The selection of books presented in this volume have been chosen as if from a vast field of flowers, stretching infinitely into time's horizon. Coelho's selection is ordered in to the four elements, symbolizing both our world on all its directions, and the way we dwell in this world, the way we say it. In 'Earth' we find writers as diverse as Oscar Wilde and D H Lawrence; in 'Air' Nelson Mandela and Gabriel Garcia Marques; in 'Fire' Rumi and Mary Shelley; in 'Water' Hans Christian Anderson and Machiavelli.
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