Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 01 by Michel de Montaigne

"Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 01" by Michel de Montaigne is a collection of essays written between approximately 1570 and 1592. Montaigne explores topics ranging from profound philosophical questions to everyday trivialities, examining human nature through frank self-reflection. Writing during France's religious wars, he embraces skepticism, questioning human certainty and reason while drawing on classical texts. His conversational style and searching inquiries into knowledge, consciousness, education, and morality helped establish the essay form itself, influencing both French and English literature. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Editor Hazlitt, William Carew, 1834-1913
Translator Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687
Title Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 01
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essays_(Montaigne)
Contents Preface -- The life of Montaigne -- The letters of Montaigne.
Credits Produced by David Widger
Reading Level Reading ease score: 58.5 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read.
Language English
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject French essays -- Translations into English
Category Text
EBook-No. 3581
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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