Télécharger le livre :  The Essays
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To overcome a crisis of melancholy after the death of his father, Montaigne withdrew to his country estates and began to write, and in the highly original essays that resulted he discussed themes such as fathers and children, conscience and cowardice, coaches and...

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Parution : 2019-04-25

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Télécharger le livre :  How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing
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'No one characteristic clasps us purely and universally in its embrace.'Glittering essays by the Renaissance master of the form, exploring contradictions in human thoughts and actions.

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Parution : 2015-02-26

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Télécharger le livre :  On Solitude
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Blending intellectual speculation with anecdote and personal reflection, the Renaissance thinker and writer Montaigne pioneered the modern essay. This selection contains his idiosyncratic and timeless writings on subjects as varied as the virtues of solitude, the power...

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Parution : 2009-08-27

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Télécharger le livre :  Gargantua and Pantagruel
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The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c. 1471-1553) expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene humour, while intertwining the realistic with carnivalesque fantasy to make us look afresh at the world. Gargantua depicts a young giant,...

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Parution : 2006-10-26

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Télécharger le livre :  An Apology for Raymond Sebond
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An Apology for Raymond Sebond is widely regarded as the greatest of Montaigne's essays: a supremely eloquent expression of Christian scepticism.An empassioned defence of Sebond's fifteenth-century treatise on natural theology, it was inspired by the deep crisis of...

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Parution : 2006-09-28

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Télécharger le livre :  On Friendship
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Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and...

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Parution : 2004-09-02

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Télécharger le livre :  The Complete Essays
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Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form. This Penguin Classics edition of The Complete Essays is translated from the French and edited with an introduction...

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Parution : 2004-03-25

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