• Montaigne: Essays

    Reflections by the creator of the essay form display the humane, skeptical, humorous, and honest views of Montaigne, revealing his thoughts on sexuality, religion, cannibals, intellectuals, and other unexpected themes. Included are such celebrated works as "On Solitude," "To Philosophize Is to Learn How to Die," and "On Experience."

    • ASIN: 014017897X
    • ASIN: 014017897X
    • ISBN: 014017897X
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

  • Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays (Penguin Classics)

    Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form. This Penguin Classics edition of The Complete Essays is translated from the French and edited with an introduction and notes by M.A. Screech. In 1572 Montaigne retired to his estates in order to devote himself to leisure, reading and reflection. There he wrote his constantly expanding 'assays', inspired by the ideas he found in books contained in his library and from his own experience. He discusses subjects as diverse as war-horses and canni... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0140446044
    • ASIN: 0140446044
    • ISBN: 9780140446043
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

  • Michel de Montaigne : Selected Essays

    "One of France's great Renaissance thinkers, Montaigne was remarkably modern in his views. These highly readable essays reflect his thoughts on poetry, philosophy, theology, law, literature, education, and world exploration. Filled with aphorisms and anecdotes,

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  • The Complete Essays of Montaigne (107 annotated essays in 1 eBook + The Life of Montaigne + The Letters of Montaigne) - eBook

    This carefully crafted ebook: “The Complete Essays of Montaigne (107 annotated essays in 1 eBook + The Life of Montaigne + The Letters of Montaigne)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed

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    • Rating: 3.9

  • Shakespeare's Montaigne : The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection

    An NYRB Classics Original Shakespeare, Nietzsche wrote, was Montaigne's best reader--a typically brilliant Nietzschean insight, capturing the intimate relationship between Montaigne's ever-changing record of the self and Shakespeare's kaleidoscopic register of human character. And there

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  • The Essays of Montaigne: Book the First - eBook

    The present publication is intended to supply a recognised deficiency in our literature—a library edition of the Essays of Montaigne. This great French writer deserves to be regarded as a classic, not only in the

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  • The Essays of Montaigne: Book the Second - eBook

    Such as make it their business to oversee human actions, do not find themselves in anything so much perplexed as to reconcile them and bring them into the world's eye with the same lustre and

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  • The Essays of Montaigne: Book the Third - eBook

    No man is free from speaking foolish things; but the worst on't is, when a man labours to play the fool:"Nae iste magno conatu magnas nugas dixerit."["Truly he, with a great effort will shortly say

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  • The Essays of Montaigne - eBook

    “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” The Essays of Montaigne are a collection of writings from the late 16th century. Montaigne's stated goal in his book is

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  • Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete - eBook

    Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form. In 1572, Montaigne retired to his estates in order to devote himself

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  • Essays of Michel de Montaigne - eBook

    The most usual way of appeasing the indignation of such as we have any way offended, when we see them in possession of the power of revenge, and find that we absolutely lie at their

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  • The Complete Essays of Michel de Montaigne - eBook

    With the goal of describing man with complete frankness and using himself as his most frequent example, de Montaigne published his "Essais" (or "Attempts") in 1580. This collection of 107 chapters encompasses a wide variety

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  • Shakespeare's Montaigne

    The Essays of Michel de Montaigne, Book 3, (Part 1/2)

    Section 38 - OF SOLITUDE