| Essays Of Michel de Montaigne Contributor(s): Montaigne, Michel (Author) |
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ISBN: 1508610703 ISBN-13: 9781508610700 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $28.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1877 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Self-help | Motivational & Inspirational - Literary Collections | Essays - History | Europe - Renaissance |
| Physical Information: 1.62" H x 6" W x 9" (2.35 lbs) 814 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 observes, the Frenchman's literary importance largely results from the share which his mind had in influencing other minds, coeval and subsequent. But, at the same time, estimating the value and rank of the essayist, we are not to leave out of the account the drawbacks and the circumstances of the period: the imperfect state of education, the comparative scarcity of books, and the limited opportunities of intellectual intercourse. Montaigne freely borrowed of others, and he has found men willing to borrow of him as freely. We need not wonder at the reputation which he with seeming facility achieved. He was, without being aware of it, the leader of a new school in letters and morals. |