Essays of Michel de Montaigne, Complete
Michel de Montaigne · English
Michel de Montaigne's Essays, first published in 1580 and enlarged in later editions, gave the essay its name as a form of candid self-examination.
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Michel de Montaigne's Essays, first published in 1580 and enlarged in later editions, gave the essay its name as a form of candid self-examination. This complete edition gives all three books, 107 essays in all, in Charles Cotton's translation of 1685 to 1686 as revised and edited by William Carew Hazlitt in 1877. Hazlitt's preface, a life of Montaigne and his letters come first. The essays range from short pieces on sorrow and idleness to longer ones such as Of the Education of Children, the Apology for Raimond Sebond and the closing essay, Of Experience.
Essays of Michel de Montaigne, Complete
Michel de Montaigne · English
Michel de Montaigne's Essays, first published in 1580 and enlarged in later editions, gave the essay its name as a form of candid self-examination.
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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
Michel de Montaigne's Essays, first published in 1580 and enlarged in later editions, gave the essay its name as a form of candid self-examination. This complete edition gives all three books, 107 essays in all, in Charles Cotton's translation of 1685 to 1686 as revised and edited by William Carew Hazlitt in 1877. Hazlitt's preface, a life of Montaigne and his letters come first. The essays range from short pieces on sorrow and idleness to longer ones such as Of the Education of Children, the Apology for Raimond Sebond and the closing essay, Of Experience.
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