Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 16 by Michel de Montaigne
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"Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 16" by Michel de Montaigne is part of a collection of essays written between approximately 1570 and 1592. Montaigne set out to record traits of his own character with complete frankness, never suspecting his introspective experiments would profoundly influence literature and thought. Writing during France's violent religious wars, he questioned human certainty and reason, exploring everything from conscience to trivial matters like smells. His skeptical
philosophy asks: what do we truly know about ourselves and the world? (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 16 |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essays_(Montaigne) |
| Contents | Of coaches -- Of the inconvenience of greatness -- Of the art of conference. |
| Credits | Produced by David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 48.5 (College-level). 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. | 3596 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-03596-3 |
| Release Date | Nov 1, 2004 |
| Last Update | Jan 8, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 734 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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