Publisher's Synopsis
A great masterpiece - first published in 1948 and now with a foreword by W. H. Auden. The work has attained near-legendary status and readers have discovered in de Chazal's brilliant aphorisms what the author himself described as a new view of life' requiring a unique title. Although two previous selections of Weiss's remarkable translations of this major work have been published, no complete edition of the translation has been available until now.'