The Frenzy of Renown by Braudy, Leo - 1986: Fame and Its History

Oxford University Press, Incorporated. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Oxford University Press, Incorporated. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Oxford University Press, Incorporated. Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

-, January 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fair.

Oxford University Press, 1986. Hardcover. Good.

New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1986. First Printing. Hardcover. 0195040031 . Stamped owner bookplate on the front free endpaper. There is some light discoloration around the edges of the dustjacket. .

-. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp.

Oxford, 1986. 649pp. Hardback, black cloth spine, beige board covers, DJ has minor wear,and tiny tear back lower edge, b&w illustrations, footnotes, references, index, various expressios, definitions, and examples of seeking attention from classical times thoughout histoty to the present day. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good+.

Oxford University Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 6x0x10. [From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Light tanning to edges. Pages unmarked. <br> "Analyzes the concept of fame throughout history. Includes chapters on Homer, Alexander the Great, Pompey, Cicero, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Caligula, Nero, Jesus Christ, St. Augustine, Charlesmagne, St. Francis of Assisi, Dante Alighieri, Geoffrey Chaucer, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Benjamin Franklin, John Keats, William Hazlitt, Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, Abraham Lincoln, Mathew Brady, and P.T. Barnum." <br> "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative… Read More

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS. Hardcover. GOOD. 0 9780195040036 C1986 GOOD HARDBACK IN VERY GOOD JACKET [RUBBED SPOT ON PASTEDOWN, ELSE UNMARKED TEXT, TANNED DJ] FAME AND ITS HISTORY