A new addition to this excellent reference series of slim, small paperbacks. The cardinal virtues, the heavenly virtues, the thought of Aristotle and Aquinas; virtues moral and intellectual; Confucian and Islamic ideas of virtue; and of course, the herd of elephants in the room – the capital vices, their antitheses, when good goes very wrong.
The Virtues: A Very Short Introduction
£8.99
Edition:Paperback978019884537925/03/2021From a Bookshelf nearby
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Half a century before Owen Jones's 'Grammar of Ornament' (1856), Freiherr zu Racknitz produced this survey of twenty-four different styles, some historical, some contemporary, the predictabl... read more
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Grandson of an attainted Jacobite, the last Earl of Seaforth climbed volcanoes with William Hamilton and entertained young Mozart in Naples while on the Grand Tour. His marriage to a fashion... read more
GIMCRACK: A Rake’s Progress
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Craske's revisionist account of the 'painter of light' casts him in a rather more crepuscular emotional gloaming. Fascinating and deeply researched; illustrated of course.
Joseph Wright of Derby – Painter of Darkness
Hardback £45.00