Marius the Epicurean (Penguin Classics)
by Pater, Walter
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0140432361
- ISBN 13
- 9780140432367
- Seller
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Carmarthenshire, United Kingdom
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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
- Carmarthenshire Rare Books. (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 134533
- Title
- Marius the Epicurean (Penguin Classics)
- Author
- Pater, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140432361
- ISBN 13
- 9780140432367
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1985
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
Terms of Sale
Carmarthenshire Rare Books.
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