Maxims ( bilingual edition)
Language: English
Published by St. Augustine's Press, USA, 2001
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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- Title
- Maxims ( bilingual edition)
- Author
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
- Publisher
- St. Augustine's Press, USA
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- Very good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1890318426
- ISBN 13
- 9781890318420
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 363 grams
- Dimensions
- 5.75 inches width by 8.75 inches height by 1 inch depth
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- Classics
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From the Back Cover
-Joseph Epstein
"A thorough edition and a superb translation of the most acute work in the French classical moralistic wisdom. The Introduction is brilliant. What La Rochefoucald denounced as the appetites of human pride is not so different indeed from what nowadays is called narcissism. His book expressed disillusion wih aristocratic individualistic values. But his resemblance with the 'demystifiers' of our times makes his 'Maximes' essential reading. A very remarkable book."
-Jean Starobinski
"La Rochefoucauld's sententious reflections on life, death and much of what passes in their compass are given shape in a masterly introduction that locates their author his relation to his moral and spiritual heritage and to a future that has become our modern environment. The thoughtful translation adds much to the merit of this valuable work."
-Joseph Cropsey
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