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How to ...?
How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love--such questions arise in most people's lives.
They are all versions of a bigger question: how do you live? How do you do the good or honourable thing, while flourishing and feeling happy?
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Essays, Attempts, Tries
This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), perhaps the first truly modern individual.
A nobleman, public official, and wine-grower, he wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and ex...
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A Source of Answers
It traces his bizarre upbringing (made to speak only Latin), youthful career and sexual adventures, travels, and friendships with the scholar and poet Etienne de La Boétie and with his adopted 'daughter', Marie de Gournay.
And as we read, we also meet his readers--who for cent...
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The Story of His Life
The Essays was an instant bestseller, and more than four hundred years later, Montaigne's honesty and charm still draw people to him.
Readers come to him in search of companionship, wisdom and entertainment--and in search of themselves.
This book, a spirited an...
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