Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete

by Michel de Montaigne

The complete essays of Montaigne, the writer who invented the form: a lifelong, endlessly curious inquiry into himself and, through himself, into what it means to be human.

At a glance Few books feel as much like the company of a wise, unguarded friend as this one, in… What it's about This complete collection gathers the whole of Michel de Montaigne's… Coining the essay as a form of trying-out, testing an idea rather than proclaiming it… Themes Montaigne returns again and again to the limits of certainty, the fickleness of…

This complete collection gathers the whole of Michel de Montaigne's Essais, the sprawling, revisited body of work in which he examined everything that crossed his mind, friendship, fear, education, cruelty, custom…