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Michel de Montaigne
The Complete Essays
Read by Peter Wickham
unabridged
In 1572, Montaigne – nobleman, humanist, and thoroughly Renaissance man – retired to the seclusion of his estate in the Dordogne and started to write. From his pen poured a stream of ‘essays’ – attempts to capture the observations that came to him on an idiosyncratic range of subjects, from ancient customs, cannibals and books to thumbs, war-horses and the wearing of clothes. He made the study of himself the starting point for investigations into how to live, and wrote with a startlingly modern candour about love, grief, friendship, sex and death. His voice, by turns lively, curious, digressive, ironic and moving, is utterly captivating. The Essays feel less like a work of literature and more like an ongoing conversation with a very well-informed friend.
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Running Time: 53 h 12 m
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Digital ISBN: 978-1-78198-353-9 Cat. no.: NA0491 Edited by: Andrew Young, Viva Voce Audio Translated by: Translated by Charles Cotton; edited by William Carew Hazlitt; updated by Sophia Wickham BISAC: LCO010000 BIC: DNF Released: October 21 -
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