The Art of Worldly Wisdom with active TOC and footnotes by Baltasar Gracián, Joseph Jacobs
The Art of Worldly Wisdom with active TOC and footnotes

Baltasar Gracián, Joseph Jacobs

The Art of Worldly Wisdom with active TOC and footnotes

Baltasar Gracián, Joseph Jacobs with Baltasar Gracián (Translator)

129 pages first pub 1647 (editions)

nonfiction classics philosophy challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Gracián's style, generically called conceptism, is characterized by ellipsis and the concentration of a maximum of significance in a minimum of form, an approach referred to in Spanish as agudeza (wit), and which is brought to its extreme in the O...

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