Marius The Epicurean: His Sensations And Ideas
by Pater, Walter
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Book: Good
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About This Item
London: Macmillan, 1920. hardcover. Book: Good. 8vo.. 242 pp. 5 7/8 x 9. Green cloth covered boards, stamped in gold on spine. V1 of the Library Edition of the Works of Walter Pater. No dj. Prev owner's ex libris label ifc, bent corners.
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
- Blue Awning Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 69666
- Title
- Marius The Epicurean: His Sensations And Ideas
- Author
- Pater, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Book: Good
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1920
- Size
- 8vo.
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