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Montaigne’s Essays

Essays by Renaissance nobleman and thinker Michel de Montaigne. Translated by John Florio.

Michel de Montaigne was a French nobleman, magistrate, and mayor of Bordeaux who essentially invented the essay as a literary and philosophical form. After the death of his close friend Étienne de La Boétie and a series of personal crises, he retired at age thirty-eight to his château’s tower library, lined with over a thousand books and inscribed with his favourite quotations from the ancients on the ceiling beams, and began writing his Essais (‘attempts’ or ‘trials’).

Over the next two decades he produced three books of increasingly searching self-examination, covering everything from cannibals to kidney stones, from the education of children to the experience of nearly dying after being thrown from a horse. His method was bold honesty: he recorded his habits, fears, contradictions, and bodily functions with a frankness that shocked many readers and delighted others.

Features;

• Folio Society First Impression No. 1315
• Publisher Folio Society, London; 2006
• Bound In Quarter Dark-Blue Buckram
• Size 4kg

Condition: Fine – Superb Unmarked Copy

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