MARIUS THE EPICUREAN : HIS SENSATIONS AND IDEAS.
by PATER, Walter (Walter Horatio), 1839-1894 :
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London : Macmillan & Co., 1885. First edition. The great stylist's philosophical novel of ancient Rome - the young Marius, secretary to the stoic Marcus Aurelius, pursues integrity and the aesthetic life. One of the most remarkable novels of the period, stretching the boundaries of fiction, and exploring questions of morality, religion, philosophy and gender. A key text of the modern movement, influencing authors as diverse as Hardy, Joyce, Wilde and Woolf. "We consciously looked to Pater for our philosophy" (W. B. Yeats). Two volumes. Post 8vo (202 x 132mm). [viii],260; [viii],246,[ii]pp. Bound in an elegant later (early twentieth-century) half blue morocco by Ramage; marbled sides and endpapers; top edges gilt; a few very faint signs of age and use, but a very good set of an uncommon book. With the pictorial book-room bookplate of Allan D. Macdonald and the later (1950) ownership inscription of David Fyfe Anderson (1904-1988), the Scottish obstetrician, in each volume.
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
- Ash Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 42556
- Title
- MARIUS THE EPICUREAN : HIS SENSATIONS AND IDEAS.
- Author
- PATER, Walter (Walter Horatio), 1839-1894 :
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London : Macmillan & Co., 1885.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- English Literature, Fiction, Philosophy, Fine Bindings
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About Ash Rare Books
Ash Rare Books. Founded in 1946 and long one of London's more interesting small book businesses. Owned and run by Laurence Worms, former President of the ABA.
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