Marius the Epicurean: His Sensations and Ideas
by Pater, Walter
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+
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Redruth, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
2 Volume Set. Interesting Philosophical work adapting the ideas of Epicurus re: the shortness of life to the Christian life. Vol. I, 243 p.pages; Vol. II, 224 p.pages. Period dark Blue cloth covers with Gilt lettering on spines. All page edges untrimmed. Small inscriptions on ffeps, dated 1941. Interesting penciled note and pasted article on half-title page of Vol. I. No other inscriptions.
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
- White Swan Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100034
- Title
- Marius the Epicurean
- Author
- Pater, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1907
- Size
- 8 1/4" Tall.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Epicurus/Christian Philosophy
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian; Religion; Ancient Authors; Philosophy;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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