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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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Michel Montaigne
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.
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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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Rhys,Michel Montaigne
Everymans Library: Essays And Belles Lettres: The Essayes Of Michael, Lord Of Montaigne (Volume Ii) has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This…
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A selection of Michel de Montaigne's most profound, searching essays, in a new translation and stunning hardback edition
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Volume One of a Three Volume Set. Other volumes in this set are ISBN(s): 1419173774.
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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…
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…
Volume Two and Three of a Three Volume Set. Other volumes in this set are ISBN(s): 1419129589.
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…
Edward Dowden
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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Edith Helen Sichel
Francois de Bigorie de Laschamps,Francois Bigorie De Laschamps (De)
Michel de Montaigne; par F. Bigorie de Laschamps, … Date de l'edition originale: 1860 Sujet de l'ouvrage: Montaigne, de
Le present ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des…
CONTENTS Montaigne the Man Montaigne the Philosopher Bibliographical Note Index
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…
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part…
