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An Educated Man is Not a Pot: Writings on the University by Simon Leys
$19.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Confucius said- 'An educated man is not a pot'. A pot, or a tool, has only limited capacity and a narrow, specialised use. The aim of education is to enable a person to become more fully human. Western humanism had the same aim. Remember Erasmus- 'One is not born a man, one becomes a man.'" - Simon Leys ...Show more
On the Abolition of All Political Parties by Simon Leys; Simone Weil (Translator)
$16.99 AUD
Category: Political
'Political parties are a marvellous mechanism . . . If one were to entrust the organisation of public life to the devil, he could not invent a more clever device.' Here Simon Leys translates for the first time into English an essay by the remarkable Simone Weil - philosopher, activist, mystic - which ma ...Show more
Prosper: A Voyage at Sea: Short Black 8 by Simon Leys
$7.00 AUD
Category: European
A big liner, brightly lit, passes us one or two cable-lengths ahead. 'Ow They are guzzling champagne but cannot see what's in front of them ' grumbles Etienne, who has the helm and puts Prosper back on course. Our wooden boat, which one long wave can carry, is a mere cork in the wake of that ship, which ...Show more
The Analects of Confucius by Confucius (tr/notes Simon Leys)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
"This is the Confucius translation for our time". -- Jonathan Mirsky, The Times (London) In this terse, brilliant translation, Simon Leys restores the human dimension to Confucius. He emerges a full-blooded character with a passion for politics and a devotion to the ideals of a civilization he saw in de ...Show more
The Death of Napoleon (PB) by Simon Leys
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Category: Australian
As he bore a vague resemblance to the Emperor, the sailors on board the Hermann-Augustus Stoeffer had nicknamed him Napoleon. And so, for convenience, that is what we shall call him. Besides, he was Napoleon. . . . Napoleon has escaped from St. Helena, leaving a double behind him. Now disguised as t ...Show more
The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays by Simon Leys
$49.95 AUD
Category: Essays
Simon Leys' cultural and political commentary has long been legendary for its profundity and acerbic wit. In The Hall of Uselessness his most significant essays are finally gathered together, on subjects ranging from China to Orwell, from Quixotism to the sea. Leys feuds with Christopher Hitchens, pond ...Show more
The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays by Simon Leys
$25.00 AUD
Category: Essays
An NYRB Classics Original Simon Leys is a Renaissance man for the era of globalization. A distinguished scholar of classical Chinese art and literature and one of the first Westerners to recognize the appalling toll of Mao's Cultural Revolution, Leys also writes with unfailing intelligence, seriousn ...Show more
The Wreck of the "Batavia" and "Prosper" by Simon Leys
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Category: History
In 1629, the Bataviawas wrecked on a coral archipelago fifty miles from the Australian continent. Most of the people on board surtvived, only to become victims of a visionary psychopath who, with the help of a dozen followers, organised a methodical massacre of the hapless community. Following the wreak ...Show more
With Stendhal by Simon Leys
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Category: Contemporary Thought
With Stendhal is a delightful composite portrait of one of the world's great novelists. Simon Leys introduces and translates into English for the first time three linked pieces- the recollections of Stendhal's famous friend Prosper Mérimée, the impressions of novelist George Sand, and a recently discove ...Show more
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