A Sinhala translation of Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince, prepared by S. Gunasekara for the Colombo publisher M. D. Gunasena & Co. The text is entirely in Sinhala, so a reader ordering from outside Sri Lanka should be sure of the language before buying.
Machiavelli's short Florentine treatise on how political power is won, held and lost has been read and argued over since the sixteenth century. The publisher draws out one of its better-known figures: a ruler needs to be a fox in order to recognise traps, and a lion in order to drive off wolves.
It is offered as a book on politics for those who govern and for those who are governed alike — a text to be studied rather than simply read, and one of the standard works a Sinhala reader approaching political thought would want in their own language.
- Author: S. Gunasekara
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- Pages: 145
- ISBN: 9789552131882
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