Blending intellectual speculation with anecdote and personal reflection, the Renaissance thinker and writer Montaigne pioneered the modern essay. This selection contains his idiosyncratic writings on subjects as varied as the…

This book is a biography of Michel de Montaigne, a French philosopher famous for popularizing the essay as a literary genre.

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This book includes the notes upon the text of the translation by George B. Ives and a series of comments upon the essays by Grace Norton.

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This is many of the old books which has been considered important throughout the human history. They are now extremely scarce and very expensive antique. So that this work is…

This new edition of this seminal work, edited by Stephen Greenblatt and Peter G. Platt, features an adroitly modernized text, an essay in which Greenblatt discusses both the resemblances and…