Among the numerous lives of the Buddha, this volume may well claim a place of its own.

The first book to offer an integrated reading of ancient Greek attitudes to laughter.

Drawn from Mondo scritto e mondo non scritto (2002), Sulla fiaba (1988), and other uncollected essays, this volume of previously untranslated work—now rendered in English by acclaimed translator Ann Goldstein—is a major statement in ...

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