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Marius The Epicurean: His Sensations And Ideas
by Walter Pater
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Crieff, Perth and Kinross, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Handling wear to the cover, bumping to the corners and spine and some light fading to the spine. Inside the end-papers and flyleaf are lightly tanned and the former owners name on the front end-papers. The pages are lightly tanned, but remain clean and free from markings or inscriptions.
Synopsis
Marius the Epicurean is a philosophical novel by Walter Pater (published 1885), set in the Rome of the Antonines. It elaborates Pater's ideal of the aesthetic life, his cult of beauty tempered by asceticism, and his theory of the stimulating effect of the pursuit of beauty as an ideal in itself.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Comrie Antique Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2079
- Title
- Marius The Epicurean
- Author
- Walter Pater
- Format/Binding
- Red cloth boards with a gilt title on the spine.
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Macmillan Pocket Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan And CO., Limited
- Date Published
- 1924
- Pages
- 351p
- Size
- 180mm x 118mm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Historical Fiction, philosophical novel, Pater
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....