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Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays

By Michel de Montaigne , M. A. Screech

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Classics
Year
1993
ISBN
0140446044, 9780140446043
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3548053 bytes)
Series
Penguin Classics
Edition
Reprint
Pages
1344\0
Time added
2013-04-18 12:53:47

Description

In 1572, Montaigne retired to his estates in order to devote himself to leisure, reading and reflection. There he wrote his constantly expanding 'essays', inspired by the ideas he found in books from his library and his own experience. He discusses subjects as diverse as war-horses and cannibals, poetry and politics, sex and religion, love and friendship, ecstasy and experience. Above all, Montaigne studied himself to find his own inner nature and that of humanity. The Essays are among the most idiosyncratic and personal works in all literature. An insight into a wise Renaissance mind, they continue to engage, enlighten and entertain modern readers.

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