The case of Walter Pater / Michael Levey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levey, Michael.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pater, Walter, 1839-1894.

Pater, Walter.

Authors, English--19th century--Biography.

Authors, English.

Critics--Great Britain--Biography.

Critics.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

232 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 25 cm

Manufacture:

Plymouth : Printed by Latimer Trend & Company Ltd.

Other Title:

Walter Pater

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Thames and Hudson, [1978]

Contents:

Surgeons in Stepney

The house, the family and the child

The triumvirate

Silent years and godlike aims

McQueen does his duty

'A new and daring philosophy'

The importance of not being earnest

Leonardo da Vinci, c'est moi

The demoralizing moralizer

A new triumvirate

'What came of him?'

At home in London

A degree of fame

'He was always a seeker ...'

Notes:

Publisher address from dustjacket.

"A list of Pater's writings published in his lifetime": pages 223-224.

Includes bibliographical references (page 225) and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1979".

ISBN:

0500011931 :

OCLC:

4178667