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Humanist, skeptic, acute observer of himself and others, Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) was the first to use the term “essay” to refer to the form he pioneered and he has remained one of its most famous practitioners. He reflected on the great themes of existence in his masterly and engaging writings, his subjects ranging from proper conversation and good reading, to the raising of children and the endurance of pain, from solitude, destiny, time and custom, to truth, consciousness, and death. Having stood the test of time, his essays continue to influence writers nearly five hundred years later.
Also included in this complete edition of his works are Montaigne’s letters and travel journal, fascinating records of the experiences and contemplations that would shape and infuse his essays. Montaigne speaks to us always in a personal voice in which his virtues of tolerance, moderation, and understanding are dazzlingly manifest.
Donald M. Frame’s masterful translation is widely acknowledged to be the classic English version.
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Seneca Six Pack 2 (Hardcover)
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Harold Edgeworth Butler, Elbert Hubbard, Michel De Montaigne
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Seneca Six Pack 2 presents six more primary and secondary texts for
students of Stoicism and fans of Lucius Annaeus Seneca. There are
three Seneca originals, a study of Seneca's poetry, a biographical
essay by Elbert Hubbard and a look at the parallels between Seneca
and Plutarch. Apocolocyntosis Or, Ludus de Morte Claudii: The
Pumpkinification of Claudius by Seneca. Letters from a Stoic Volume
II by Seneca. On Benefits by Seneca. Seneca's Poetry by Harold
Edgeworth Butler. Seneca by Elbert Hubbard. Seneca and Plutarch by
Michel de Montaigne.
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What Do I Know? - Essential Essays
Michel De Montaigne; Translated by David Coward; Introduction by Yiyun Li
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A selection of Michel de Montaigne's most profound, searching
essays, in a new translation and stunning hardback edition 'I
myself am the subject of my book'. So wrote Montaigne in the
introductory note to his Essays, the book that marked the birth of
the modern essay form. In works of probing intelligence and
idiosyncratic observation, Montaigne moved from intimate personal
reflection to roving theories of the conduct of kings and
cannibals, the effects of sorrow and fear, and the fallibility of
human memory and judgement. This new selection of Montaigne's most
ingenious essays appears in a lucid new translation by the
prize-winning David Coward. What Do I Know? offers the modern
reader profound insight into a great Renaissance mind.
The Essays of Michel de Montaigne (1877) is a collection of essays
and letters by Michel de Montaigne. Originally published in French
as Essais (1580), this edition was translated by English poet
Charles Cotton in the late-17th century and republished by William
Carew Hazlitt, the grandson of renowned English essayist and critic
William Hazlitt. "No man living is more free from this passion [of
sorrow] than I, who yet neither like it in myself nor admire it in
others, and yet generally the world, as a settled thing, is pleased
to grace it with a particular esteem, clothing therewith wisdom,
virtue, and conscience. Foolish and sordid guise!" In his masterful
essays, Michel de Montaigne eschews the typical distancing required
of the authorial voice in order to investigate public matters
through a personal lens. As the subject of his own musings, he
provides both a stirring self-portrait and an invaluable new voice
that will resonate throughout Western literature. Unlike the
Enlightenment thinkers who would follow in his footsteps, Montaigne
is skeptical of the possibility of human certainty and takes an
ethical stand against the European colonial project in the Americas
and elsewhere. At times serious, at others tongue-in-cheek, his
wide-ranging topics include conscience, politics, sorrow, solitude,
fear, friendship, war, and poetry. The Essays of Michel de
Montaigne were written at a crossroads in human history-between
Renaissance and Enlightenment, Catholicism and Protestantism,
Montaigne argues that to look outward requires we first look
within, and that the quest for happiness requires us to accept what
we cannot know. With a beautifully designed cover and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Essays of
Michel de Montaigne is a classic of French philosophy reimagined
for modern readers.
Under the pretense of defending an obscure treatise by a Catalan
theologian, Sebond, Montaigne attacks the philosophers who attempt
rational explanations of the universe and argues for a skeptical
Christianity based squarely on faith rather than reason. The result
is the Apology for Raymond Sebond , a classic of
Counter-Reformation thought and a masterpiece of Renaissance
literature. This new translation by Roger Ariew and Marjorie Grene
achieves both accuracy and fluency, conveying at once the nuances
of Montaigne's arguments and his distinctive literary style.
A superb achievement, one that successfully brings together in
accessible form the work of two major writers of Renaissance
France. This is now the default version of Montaigne in English.
--Timothy Hampton, Professor of French and Comparative Literature,
University of California, Berkeley
'No one characteristic clasps us purely and universally in its
embrace.' A selection of charming essays from a master of the genre
exploring the contradictions inherent to human thought, words and
actions. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's
80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and
diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and
across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over
Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del
Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are
stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays
satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives
of millions. Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592). Montaigne's works
available in Penguin Classics are The Complete Essays, An Apology
for Raymond Sebond, On Friendship, On Solitude and The Essays: A
Selection
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have
transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have
inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have
enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched
lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the
great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas
shook civilization, and helped make us who we are. Michel de
Montaigne was the originator of the modern essay form; in these
diverse pieces he expresses his views on relationships,
contemplates the idea that man is no different from any animal,
argues that all cultures should be respected, and attempts, by an
exploration of himself, to understand the nature of humanity.
For the true bibliophile and design-savvy book lover, here is the
next set of Penguin's celebrated Great Ideas series by some of
history's most innovative thinkers. Acclaimed for their striking
and elegant package, each volume features a unique type-driven
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for readers who want to explore and savor the Great Ideas that have
shaped our world.
Shakespeare, Nietzsche wrote, was Montaigne's best reader-a
typically brilliant Nietzschean insight, capturing the intimate
relationship between Montaigne's ever-changing record of the self
and Shakespeare's kaleidoscopic register of human character. And
there is no doubt that Shakespeare read Montaigne-though how
extensively remains a matter of debate-and that the translation he
read him in was that of John Florio, a fascinating polymath,
man-about-town, and dazzlingly inventive writer himself. Florio's
Montaigne is in fact one of the masterpieces of English prose, with
a stylistic range and felicity and passages of deep lingering music
that make it comparable to Sir Robert Burton's Anatomy of
Melancholy and the works of Sir Thomas Browne. This new edition of
this seminal work, edited by Stephen Greenblatt and Peter G. Platt,
features an adroitly modernized text, an essay in which Greenblatt
discusses both the resemblances and real tensions between
Montaigne's and Shakespeare's visions of the world, and Platt's
introduction to the life and times of the extraordinary Florio.
Altogether, this book provides a remarkable new experience of not
just two but three great writers who ushered in the modern world.
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Angel
Shawn Michel De Montaigne
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Shawn Michel De Montaigne
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Shawn Michel De Montaigne
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A superb achievement, one that successfully brings together in
accessible form the work of two major writers of Renaissance
France. This is now the default version of Montaigne in English.
--Timothy Hampton, Professor of French and Comparative Literature,
University of California, Berkeley
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