The Sayings of Confucius A New Translation of the Greater Part of the Confucian Analects is part of the Ethics catalogue. The record identifies Confucius, 552 BCE-480 BCE, Giles, Lionel, 1875-1958 [Translator] as the credited author and preserves a link to the source edition.

Edition profile

The extracted text contains approximately 33,462 words, corresponding to an estimated 146 minutes of reading, and is divided into 5 detectable text sections. These figures describe the downloaded text file rather than a printed pagination system.

The automated text analysis reports an average sentence length of about 19.4 words and a measured lexical-diversity value of 0.145. These measurements are descriptive reading aids, not literary ratings.

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The source record associates this edition with the following subjects: Ethics -- China, Philosophy, Chinese. Catalog terms may reflect historical library practice and can be broader or narrower than a modern reader’s interpretation.

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