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The Art of Worldly Wisdom

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

A Pocket Oracle

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The remarkable best-seller -- a long-lost, 300-year-old book of wisdom on how to live successfully yet responsibly in a society governed by self-interest -- as acute as Machiavelli yet as humanistic and scrupulously moral as Marcus Aurelius.
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Baltasar Gracian
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About the Author

Christopher Maurer
Christopher Maurer has written widely on Spanish literature, and has edited and translated poetry collections by Federico García Lorca, and translated works by Baltasar Gracián (including the New York Times bestsellers The Art of Worldly Wisdom and A Pocket Mirror for Heroes). He is the chairman of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Vanderbilt University. More by Christopher Maurer
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