The Near And The Far: Containing The Root And The Flower & The Pool Of Vishnu
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Set against the blazing, mystical backdrop of sixteenth-century Mughal India, The Near and the Far is a profound and luminous work of fiction that chronicles the spiritual and moral odyssey of young Prince Jali and his father Amar, as they navigate a world torn between earthly power and transcendent truth. L. H. Myers constructs a richly imagined court of Emperor Akbar — a civilisation of breathtaking grandeur and breathtaking corruption — where the eternal questions of good, evil, beauty, and meaning press upon every soul with urgent, inescapable force. This omnibus edition unites two complete novels, The Root and the Flower and The Pool of Vishnu, presenting Myers's sweeping philosophical vision in its entirety. Myers, a deeply singular voice in twentieth-century British literature, wrote with the precision of a philosopher and the sensibility of a poet, crafting prose that is at once stately and searingly intimate. His work stands apart from the fashionable modernism of his era, insisting instead on the primacy of moral seriousness and the examined life — concerns that align him as much with Tolstoy as with his English contemporaries. The Near and the Far rewards patient readers with one of the most searching meditations on the human condition in the English literary canon — a question that, once posed, refuses to leave you.
Author: L. H. Myers
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Set against the blazing, mystical backdrop of sixteenth-century Mughal India, The Near and the Far is a profound and luminous work of fiction that chronicles the spiritual and moral odyssey of young Prince Jali and his father Amar, as they navigate a world torn between earthly power and transcendent truth. L. H. Myers constructs a richly imagined court of Emperor Akbar — a civilisation of breathtaking grandeur and breathtaking corruption — where the eternal questions of good, evil, beauty, and meaning press upon every soul with urgent, inescapable force. This omnibus edition unites two complete novels, The Root and the Flower and The Pool of Vishnu, presenting Myers's sweeping philosophical vision in its entirety. Myers, a deeply singular voice in twentieth-century British literature, wrote with the precision of a philosopher and the sensibility of a poet, crafting prose that is at once stately and searingly intimate. His work stands apart from the fashionable modernism of his era, insisting instead on the primacy of moral seriousness and the examined life — concerns that align him as much with Tolstoy as with his English contemporaries. The Near and the Far rewards patient readers with one of the most searching meditations on the human condition in the English literary canon — a question that, once posed, refuses to leave you.