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Out of print for decades, the enchanting classics in this new edition of Pater's Imaginary Portraits will be welcomed by teachers & students of literature, art history, & aesthetics. First published in 1887, these portraits are fictionalized accounts of historic figures, written by this esteemed 19th-century scholar of Renaissance art & literature. Each shares a common search for a new aesthetic, a pursuit of beauty that anticipated the modern movement in prose & poetry & helped to define aesthetics in the 20th century. This edition also includes the celebrated work,The Child in the House, out of print since 1904, & the unfinished novel, Gaston de Latour.Pater, Walter is the author of 'Imaginary Portraits Easyread Large Edition' with ISBN 9780788169298 and ISBN 0788169297.
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