Synopses & Reviews
A lavish hardcover collectors edition of one of the most influential works ever written
How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you lovesuch questions arise in most peoples lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: How do you live? This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel de Montaigne, who wrote free-roaming explorations of his thoughts and experiences unlike anything written before, and in the process invented the genre of the essay.
Montaigne influenced many of the worlds greatest writers, from Shakespeare to Rousseau to Emerson to Christopher Hitchens, and readers still come to him more than four hundred years later in search of companionship, wisdom, and entertainmentand in search of themselves.
This beautiful, oversized, deluxe edition of Essaysbound in gold-lettered cloth, complete with a ribbon bookmark and full-sized facsimiles of Montaignes first folio pagesdeserves to stand as a centerpiece in any personal library.
About the Author
M. A. Screech is an emeritus fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is recognized as a world authority on the Renaissance and was inducted into the French Legion of Honor for his translation of Montaigne's Essays. M. A. Screech is an emeritus fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is recognized as a world authority on the Renaissance and was inducted into the French Legion of Honor for his translation of Montaigne's Essays. M. A. Screech is an emeritus fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is recognized as a world authority on the Renaissance and was inducted into the French Legion of Honor for his translation of Montaigne's Essays.
Table of Contents
Translated with an Introduction and Notes by M. A. Screech Introduction
Note on the Text
Explanation of the Symbols
Note on the Translation
Further Reading
Appendices
AN APOLOGY FOR RAYMOND SEBOND