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Drawn from Life: Selected Essays of Michel de Montaigne 2016 (Classic Collection) Book

The essays of Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, the 16th-century French philosopher, are an obvious addition to the Notting Hill Editions 'Classic Collection' due to the masterful balance of intellectual knowledge and personal story-telling conveyed in his writing. He popularised the genre of the essay form, coining the term from the French verb 'essayer', translated literally as attempts or trials. This selection is introduced by Tim Parks and is from the M A Creech translation. In this collection, Montaigne ponders the great and small questions of life and subjects as diverse as education, fear, reading and death. Throughout his essays he attempts to reach a deeper understanding of himself and, in so doing, he touches on the greater human condition. His natural curiosity for life shines through in his lively, at times rambling, pieces and the charm of his writing continues to captivate modern readers. Montaigne indicates a direction western thinking could have taken and alas didn't.Read More

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    The Notting Hill Editions Classic Collection series brings together the great essayistsof the past, introduced by contemporary writers. Essays on the Self is a surprisingcollection spanning twenty-one years of Virginia Woolf s life, from the ages ofthirty-seven to fifty-eight, the year before her suicide. The question of the self iscentral, in some way, to every essay in this book. Whether she is discussing the rightsof women, the revolutions of modernity, social inequality, or the future of the novel, Woolf acknowledges that a writer s task is to find a unique self through which to viewthe world. The thirteen essays are introduced by the novelist Joanna Kavenna.

  • 9781910749234
  • 9781910749234
  • Michel de Montaigne
  • 28 November 2016
  • Notting Hill Editions
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 210
  • 1
  • Book
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