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    How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer

    Sarah Bakewell

    How to get on well with people, how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live? This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), who wrote…

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    Humanly Possible

    Sarah Bakewell

    Seven hundred years of heroic humanists (and their enemies), from the acclaimed author of How to Live and At The Existentialist Cafe

    The bestselling, prizewinning author of How to Live…

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    Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope

    Sarah Bakewell

    The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Cafe explores seven hundred years of writers, thinkers, scientists, and artists, all trying to understand what it means to…

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    At The Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails

    Sarah Bakewell

    Paris, near the turn of 1932-3. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their…

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    Humanly Possible

    Sarah Bakewell

    The New York Times bestseller * One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2023 * A New York Times Notable Book

    "A book of big and bold ideas, Humanly Possible…

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    The Smart

    Sarah Bakewell

    Caroline is a young Irishwoman who runs off to marry a soldier, comes to London and slides into a glamorous life as a high-class prostitute, possessing a mesmerising appeal. In…

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    At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others

    Sarah Bakewell

    [This book is] account of one of the twentieth centurys major intellectual movements and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it –Amazon.com.

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    The English Dane: From King of Iceland to Tasmanian Convict

    Sarah Bakewell

    This gripping nineteenth-century adventure stars Jorgen Jorgenson, who ran away to sea at fourteen and began a brilliant career by sailing to establish the first colony in Tasmania.

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    How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

    Sarah Bakewell

    Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 2010.

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    How to Live

    Sarah Bakewell

    Simplified Chinese edition of How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

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    Light in the Dark

    Sarah Bakewell,Ruth Cowling,Tracy Davidson

    We asked for stories that would make readers think. We certainly got them. Some edge towards the dark, though all have some closure and turn back towards the light. Just…

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