A Scholar's Life
William Marx author Nicholas Elliott translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Hermits United
Publishing:9th Dec '25
£18.99
This title is due to be published on 9th December, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
What is a lettered person? How does such a person eat, sleep, work, love, live, and die? From Socrates, Confucius, and Cicero to Petrarch, Shakespeare, Nietzsche and hundreds more, a scholar's life is told as never before in this remarkable literary history.
William Marx holds the Chair of Comparative Literature at the College de France.
This book is translated from Vie du lettre (Minuit, 2009), recipient of the Montyon Prize of the Academie francaise in 2010.
- Winner of Montyon Prize 2010
ISBN: 9781916658202
Dimensions: 222mm x 138mm x 18mm
Weight: unknown
208 pages