Author Name: WARD, MRS. HUMPHREY ( MARY AUGUSTA ARNOLD); TRANSLATOR.
Title: AMIEL'S JOURNAL; THE JOURNAL INTIME OF HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL.
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Edition: Second edition
Publisher: London: Macmillan and Co., 1890.
Seller ID: 4165
Henri-Frederic Amiel, (b), Geneva, (1821-1881). Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic. Amiel travelled widely in his youth and early on became part of the intellectual circle of Europe. He conducted a special study of German philosophy in Berlin. With the support of the democratic party, he earned appointments as professor of Aesthetics at the Academy of Geneva in 1849, and in 1854 became professor of Moral Philosophy. Leaving him without the support of the aristocratic party. Which isolated from most of the cities culture; and inspired The Journal Intime, published after his death. The Journal begins in Berlin, July 1848 through to Geneva, April, 1881.Mary Augusta Arnold (Mrs Humphry Ward) (1851-1920) was an enormously successful novelist in her time, whose work is largely concerned with religious and political issues. Frontispiece, engraved portrait of Amiel. Appendix, Notes and index to rear.
Blue cloth boards andspine, mild rubbing, bright gilt to spine, ends bumped. E.P's foxed; front e.p. penciled previous owners name, dated 1889, Geneva. Text mildly toned. Second edition. 318 pp, sm 8 vo. Solidly bound, all else clean.
Henri Frederic Amiel, Journal Henri Amiel, Swiss Philosophers Mrs.Humphrey Ward Books Swiss Philosophers, Moral Philosophy, 19th Century
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