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The complete essays ([New edition])

Montaigne, MichelScreech, M. A.(Notes by)Screech, M. A.(Introduction by)Screech, M. A.(Edited by)Screech, M. A.(Translated by)
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Nobody in Western civilization had ever tried to do what Montaigne set out to do.

In a vivid, contemporary style he moves swiftly from thought to thought, often digressing from an idea only to return, having caught up with it elsewhere.

In these essays, Montaigne lays out for his contemporaries and for us his plan for how a man might wisely live and wisely die - as he sets out to discover himself.

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Penguin Classics
0140446044 / 9780140446043
Paperback / softback
844.3
25/02/1993
United Kingdom
English
lxii, 1283 pages
20 cm
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Translated from the French.