The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library that often has copies of the Griffith translation available to borrow digitally for free.
Griffith famously began his translation while under house arrest during the 1949 Communist victory in China. He had nothing but time and a copy of the original text. This urgency translates into a stark, no-nonsense prose style. He avoids flowery Victorian English (Giles) and esoteric mysticism (Cleary). His Sun Tzu sounds like a Marine Corps commandant. art of war samuel griffith pdf
Moral Law, Heaven, Earth, The Commander, and Method/Discipline. The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library
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The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library that often has copies of the Griffith translation available to borrow digitally for free.
Griffith famously began his translation while under house arrest during the 1949 Communist victory in China. He had nothing but time and a copy of the original text. This urgency translates into a stark, no-nonsense prose style. He avoids flowery Victorian English (Giles) and esoteric mysticism (Cleary). His Sun Tzu sounds like a Marine Corps commandant.
Moral Law, Heaven, Earth, The Commander, and Method/Discipline.
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