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An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
de Mahatma Gandhi; Mohandas K. Gandhi
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0486245934
- ISBN 13
- 9780486245935
- Librería
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New York: Dover Publications, June 1983. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Interior unmarked. Spine straight and tight with reading creases. Light edgewear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. x+468 pages.
Gandhi's nonviolent protest movement, Satyagraha (satya = true, agraha = firmness), came to stand, like its creator, as a moral principle and a rallying cry. This is Gandhi's story of the path to his vision of Satyagraha and human dignity. Gandhi made scrupulous truth-telling a religion. His simply narrated account of boyhood in Gujarat, marriage at age 13, legal studies in England, and growing desire for purity and reform has the force of a man extreme in all things. He details his gradual conversion to vegetarianism and ahimsa (non-violence) and the state of celibacy (brahmacharya, self-restraint) that became one of his more arduous spiritual trials. In the political realm he outlines the beginning of Satyagraha in South Africa and India, with accounts of the first Indian fasts and protests, his initial errors and misgivings, his jailings, and continued cordial dealings with the British overlords.
Sinopsis
Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such a level of notoriety, adulation that when asked to write an autobiography midway through his career, he took it as an opportunity to explain himself. He feared the enthusiasm for his ideas tended to exceed a deeper understanding of his quest for truth rooted in devotion to God. His attempts to get closer to this divine power led him to seek purity through simple living, dietary practices, celibacy, and a life without violence. This is not a straightforward narrative biography, in The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Gandhi offers his life story as a reference for those who would follow in his footsteps.
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- Librería
- Books of the World
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- RWARE0000000438
- Título
- An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
- Autor
- Mahatma Gandhi; Mohandas K. Gandhi
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Trade Paperback
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0486245934
- ISBN 13
- 9780486245935
- Editorial
- Dover Publications
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- June 1983
- Páginas
- x+468
- Tamaño
- 8vo
- Palabras clave
- autobiography, Satyana prayogo athava atmakatha, biography, statesmen, Gandhi, Mahatma, Mahatma Gandhi; Mohandas, Mahadev Desai, India
- Catálogos del vendedor
- India; History; Biographies; Asia; Britain; Religion & Spirituality;
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