Marius the Epicurean: His Sensations and Ideas
by Pater, Walter
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good copy
- Seller
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Pittsford, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Modern Library / B&L. Very good copy. 1920. Later prt.. hardcover. 12mo, 384 pp., Bound in dark green, flexible leatherette; an early, but undated, printing circa 1920. .
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
- Abacus Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS109413I
- Title
- Marius the Epicurean: His Sensations and Ideas
- Author
- Pater, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good copy
- Edition
- Later prt.
- Publisher
- Modern Library / B&L
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1920
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- History;
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...