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The Complete Essays of Montaigne

The Complete Essays of Montaigne Hardback - 1958 - 1st Edition

by Montaigne, Michel Eyquem

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  • Title The Complete Essays of Montaigne
  • Author Montaigne, Michel Eyquem
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 908
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA
  • Date 1958-06-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR002277260
  • ISBN 9780804704854 / 0804704856
  • Weight 2.91 lbs (1.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.25 x 6.37 x 1.88 in (23.50 x 16.18 x 4.78 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Montaigne, Michel de, French essays
  • Dewey Decimal Code 844.3

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From the publisher

This new translation of Montaigne's immortal Essays received great acclaim when it was first published in The Complete Works of Montaigne in the 1957 edition. The New York Times said, "It is a matter for rejoicing that we now have available a new translation that offers definite advantages over even the best of its predecessors," and The New Republic stated that this edition gives "a more adequate idea of Montaigne's manner, his straight and unpretentious style, than any of the half-dozen previous English translations."

In his Essays Montaigne warns us from the outset that he has set himself "no goal but a domestic and private one"; yet he is one author whose modernity and universality have been acclaimed by each age since he wrote. Probing into his emotions, attitudes, and behavior, Montaigne reveals to us much about ourselves.

As new editions of the Essays were published during his lifetime, Montaigne interpolated many new passages--often of considerable length. This volume indicates the strata of composition, so that the reader may follow the development of Montaigne's thought over the years. The detailed index provides a convenient means of locating the many famous passages that occur throughout the work.

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The commonest way of softening the hearts of those we have offended, when, vengeance in hand, they hold us at their mercy, is by submission to move them to commiseration and pity.

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In his Essays Montaigne warns us from the outset that he has set himself 'no goal but a domestic and private one' yet he is one author whose modernity and universality have been acclaimed by each age since he wrote. Probing into his emotions, attitudes, and behavior, Montaigne reveals to us much about ourselves.

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