The Book of Songs Condition:Like New Virginia Maxwell

Virginia Maxwell

Dominique Sauvet

these realist fables of women looking for love are the stories that Ludmilla Petrushevskaya—who has been compared to Chekhov

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The Book of Songs Condition:Like New Virginia MaxwellOne of the five Confucian classics, The Book of Songs (Shijing) is the oldest collection of poetry in world literature and the finest treasure of traditional songs left from antiquity. Where the other Confucian classics treat outward things: deeds, moral precepts, the way the world works, as Stephen Owen tells us in his foreword, The Book of Songs is the classic of the human heart and the human mind.