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  • The Essays

    by Michel Montaigne, M. A. Screech ...
    Translated by M. A. Screech ...
    To overcome a crisis of melancholy after the death of his father, Montaigne withdrew to his country estates and began to write, and in the highly original essays that resulted he discussed themes such as fathers and children, conscience and cowardice, coaches and cannibals, and, above all, himself. On Some Lines of Virgil opens out into a frank discussion of sexuality and makes a revolutionary ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Complete Essays

    by Michel Montaigne, M. A. Screech ...
    Translated by M. A. Screech ...
    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. ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Essays

    (Complete & Illustrated)

    by Michel Montaigne ...
    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 land of his birth, but in all countries and in all literatures. His Essays, which are at once the most celebrated and the most permanent of his productions, form a magazine out of which ... Read more

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  • Denemeler

    by Montaigne ...
    OKUYUCUYAOkuyucu, bu kitap iyi niyetle yazıldı. Sana hemen baştan söyleyeyim ki ben burada kendim ve yakınlarım dışında hiçbir amaç edinmedim. Sana hizmet etmek ya da kendime ün sağlamak, aklımın köşesinden bile geçmedi. Böyle bir amaç gütmeye yetecek gücüm de yok zaten. Bu kitabı, yakınlarımın ve dostlarımın rahatlığı için yazdım. Beni yitirdikleri zaman (ki yakında buna kadeh kaldıracaklardır), ... Read more

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  • Montaigne: Complete Essays

    by Michel de Montaigne ...
    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 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 ... Read more

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  • An Apology for Raymond Sebond

    by Michel Montaigne, M. A. Screech ...
    Translated by M. A. Screech ...
    An Apology for Raymond Sebond is widely regarded as the greatest of Montaigne's essays: a supremely eloquent expression of Christian scepticism. An empassioned defence of Sebond's fifteenth-century treatise on natural theology, it was inspired by the deep crisis of personal melancholy that followed the death of Montaigne's own father in 1568, and explores contemporary Christianity in prose that is ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Essays of Montaigne

    by Montaigne ...
    Montaigne essentially invented the literary form of essay, a short subjective treatment of a given topic, of which the book contains a large number. Montaigne wrote in a kind of crafted rhetoric designed to intrigue and involve the reader, sometimes appearing to move in a stream-of-thought from topic to topic and at other times employing a structured style which gives more emphasis to the didactic ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Essays of Montaigne

    by Michel de Montaigne ...
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  • What Do I Know?

    Essential Essays

    by Michel de Montaigne ...
    Translated by David Coward ...
    **A fresh new translation of Michel de Montaigne’s most profound, searching essays, with an introduction from Yiyun Li, author of The Book of GooseThis gift-worthy collection of 16 essays by “the father of the essay” is a short, accessible introduction to his work, offering a fascinating glimpse inside a great Renaissance mind**“I myself am the subject of my book.” So wrote Montaigne in the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Complete Essays

    by Michel de Montaigne ...
    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 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 ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Complete Essays of Montaigne

    by Michel Eyquem Montaigne ...
    Translated by Donald M Frame ...
    "One does not seem to be reading a translation, so smooth and easy is the style . . . one seems to be listening to Montaigne himself." —Andre Maurois, The New York Times Book ReviewThis new translation of Montaigne's immortal Essays received great acclaim when it was first published in The Complete Works of Montaigne in the 1957 edition. The New York Times said, "It is a matter for rejoicing that ... Read more

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  • Essays Of Michel De Montaigne

    by Michel de Montaigne ...
    Essays of Michel De Montaigne Michel De Montaigne Translated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazlitt 1877 The Essays of Michel de Montaigne are contained in three books and 107 chapters of variable length. Montaigne's stated design in writing, publishing and revising the Essays over the period from approximately 1570 to 1592 was to record for the 'private benefit of friends and kinsmen . ... Read more

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