Marius the Epicurean; His sensations and ideas
by PATER, Walter
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/good
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Modern Library, 1950. First Thus. Hardcover. Good/good. 8vo. Cloth. Dust jacket. Chips to jacket edges. Much underlining and marginal notes. This is a vintage Modern Library edition of Pater's classic biography. Uncommon in jacket.
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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- Bookseller
- Uncharted Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4658
- Title
- Marius the Epicurean; His sensations and ideas
- Author
- PATER, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1950
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