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Michel Montaigne
To overcome a crisis of melancholy after the death of his father, Montaigne withdrew to his country estates and began to write. This title discusses Montaigne’s themes such as fathers…
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This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the…
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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…
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Containing various essays, this work discusses subjects as diverse as war-horses and cannibals, poetry and politics, sex and religion, love and friendship, ecstasy and experience.
Michel de Montaigne
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…
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This edition of Essays is based on the English translation of 1685 by Charles Cotton, edited by William Carew Hazlitt in 1877 –Title page verso.
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A selection of Michel de Montaigne's most profound, searching essays, in a new translation and stunning hardback edition
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 work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
Michel de Montaigne: Schutzschrift fur Raimond von Sebonde Apologie de Raymond Sebon). Erstdruck in: Essais, Bordeaux 1580. Der Text folgt der ersten deutschen UEbersetzung von Johann Daniel Tietz (Friedrich Lankischens…
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…
The Essays (French: Essais) of Michel de Montaigne are contained in three books and 107 chapters of varying length.
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This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain…
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…
