The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle
by Gracian, Baltasar
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine copy in fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0385421311
- ISBN 13
- 9780385421317
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1992. Later prt.. hardcover. 8vo, 182 pp. .
Synopsis
Baltasar Gracián was an aphorist, imaginary biographer, and novelist, who published studies of ideal figures and handbooks on the arts of rhetoric and comportment. His books include The Hero, Shrewdness and the Art of the Artist, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, and The Master Critic. Many high officials felt attacked by the controversial and critical works of this Jesuit priest-professor. Gracián refused to be censored, and was eventually confined to solitary house arrest, where he died.
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- Abacus Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle
- Author
- Gracian, Baltasar
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine copy in fine dust jacket
- Edition
- Later prt.
- ISBN 10
- 0385421311
- ISBN 13
- 9780385421317
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy;
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