The Book of Mormon

“Hardy’s thoughtful ‘reader’s edition’ eliminates the current official text’s knotty versification, clarifies the cast of characters, includes a useful introduction and provides signposts through the sometimes dense prose… . Essential for the full comprehension of Mormonism.”–Wall Street Journal, Samuel Morris Brown “Grant Hardy has provided the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with a remarkable new version of their founding text. Although Hardy gears his book to a broad readership, those who truly love the Book of Mormon, seek to be serious students of it, or both, will find A Reader’s Edition well worth owning.”–Louis Midgley in Insights “This edition … makes the book especially helpful and intelligible to new readers and provides refreshing insights to Latter-day Saints.”–BYU Magazine

Grant Hardy is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and chair of the history department at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. He is the author of Worlds of Bronze and Bamboo: Sima Qian’s Conquest of History.