Essays of Michel de Montaigne, Volume 1: Preface, Life and Letters
Michel de Montaigne · English
This is the first volume of the 1877 library edition of Montaigne's Essays in Charles Cotton's English translation, edited by William Carew Hazlitt.
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This is the first volume of the 1877 library edition of Montaigne's Essays in Charles Cotton's English translation, edited by William Carew Hazlitt. It contains none of the essays themselves. Instead it gathers the editor's preface, which explains how Cotton's version was revised and its quotations checked, an account of Montaigne's life, and his letters in English, including his account of the death of his friend Etienne de La Boetie. The Essays, first published in 1580 and enlarged until Montaigne's death in 1592, follow in the later volumes of the edition.
Essays of Michel de Montaigne, Volume 1: Preface, Life and Letters
Michel de Montaigne · English
This is the first volume of the 1877 library edition of Montaigne's Essays in Charles Cotton's English translation, edited by William Carew Hazlitt.
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1877 CONTENTS OF VOLUME 1. Preface The Life of Montaigne The Letters of Montaigne PREFACE. 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 such minds as those of Bacon and Shakespeare did not disdain to help themselves; and, indeed, as Hallam obser
Pagera Editor's Note
This is the first volume of the 1877 library edition of Montaigne's Essays in Charles Cotton's English translation, edited by William Carew Hazlitt. It contains none of the essays themselves. Instead it gathers the editor's preface, which explains how Cotton's version was revised and its quotations checked, an account of Montaigne's life, and his letters in English, including his account of the death of his friend Etienne de La Boetie. The Essays, first published in 1580 and enlarged until Montaigne's death in 1592, follow in the later volumes of the edition.
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