Word: timelessness
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...doubt your writers labor long and hard in their man-made skyscraper to achieve a fine turn of phrase. But those who live with wind, sand and stars have only to translate the wisdom of Allah, which is written in his works. They have the true eloquence of the TIMEless...
...COMPLETE FAIRY TALES OF OSCAR WILDE (illustrations by Charles Mozley; Watts; $4.95) are timeless parables of good and evil for which no child can be too old and no adult too young. In the past, Wilde has often been reduced to the importance of reading and seeing The Importance of Being Earnest; now he is being rediscovered as a magical fabulist and as great a moralist as he was an immoralist. Wilde saw life as a fatality, and many of his fables end tragically. None can be summarized or quoted out of context, for they are mosaics into which Wilde...
...Complete Poems of Cavafy, translated by Rae Dalven, and Poems, by George Seferis, translated by Rex Warner. The first book-length chance U.S. readers have had to become acquainted with the two greatest poets of 20th century Greece and with their timely and timeless sense of the past...
...Complete Poems of Cavafy, translated by Rae Dalven, and Poems by George Seferis, translated by Rex Warner. The two finest Greek poets of the 20th century, in evocative translations that capture each writer's cruel sense of the past and timeless sense of man's fate...
...Silone himself did in the '30s and early '40s. The farm is really Daniele's first loyalty, and his teen-aged daughter Silvia is his chief joy. Amid the cycle of the seasons, Silone fashions a triptych of father, daughter and nature, linked in a timeless rural idyl...