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23%OFFSarah Bakewell - How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer - 9780099485155 - V9780099485155
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How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

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Description for How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer Paperback. How to get on well with people, how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live? This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), who wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought. This biography of Montaigne relates the story of his life by way of the questions he posed and the answers he explored. Num Pages: 400 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGL; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 376.

How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live?

This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), who wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience, unlike anything written before. Into these essays he put whatever was in his head: his tastes in wine and food, his childhood memories, the way his dog's ears twitched when it was dreaming, events in the appalling civil wars raging around him. The Essays was an instant bestseller, and over four hundred years later, readers still ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099485155
SKU
V9780099485155
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-97

About Sarah Bakewell
Sarah Bakewell had a wandering childhood, growing up on the "hippie trail" through Asia and in Australia. She studied philosophy at the University of Essex, and worked for many years as a curator of early printed books at the Wellcome Library, London, before becoming a full-time writer. Her books include How to Live: a life of Montaigne, which ... Read more

Reviews for How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
With this splendidly conceived and exquisitely written double biography - of both Montaigne the man and Montaigne the book - Sarah Bakewell should persuade another generation to fall in love with Montaigne
Sunday Times
How to live is a superb, spirited introduction to the master, and should have its readers rushing straight to the essays themselves
Adam ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer


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