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Violet Paget (1856-1935), also known under the pseudonym Vernon Lee, was a French-born British writer famous for her supernatural fiction and contributions to the field of aesthetics. She also wrote more than a dozen books on a variety of subjects ranging from music to travel, and today she is best remembered for her original ideas and amusing use of irony. First published in 1913, The Beautiful - An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics is a collection of classic essays by Paget that explore the issue of beauty from a variety of angles, analysing the very nature of beauty and why it is enjoyed. Contents include: The Adjective 'Beautiful' , Contemplative Satisfaction , Aspects Versus Things , Sensations , Perception of Relations , Elements of Shape , Facility and Difficulty of Grasping , Subject and Object , Empathy , The Movement of Lines , The Character of Shapes , etc. Other notable works by this author include: The Prince of the Hundred Soups: A Puppet Show in Narrative (1883), The Countess of Albany (1884), and Miss Brown (1884). Read & Co. Science is proudly republishing this collection of classic essays now in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

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