The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle

Baltasar Gracian

Crown, Nov 10, 2010 - Body, Mind & Spirit - 208 pages

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle
• Author: Baltasar Gracian
• Translated by: Christopher Maurer
• Publisher: Crown, 2010
• ISBN: 0307756971, 9780307756978
• Length: 208 pages
• Subjects: Body, Mind & Spirit / Inspiration & Personal Growth; Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Self-Help / Personal Growth / General