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Essays / Michel de Montaigne.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Montaigne, Michel de, author.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Cleveland : Duke Classics, 2012.
- System Details:
- Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 5124 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1317 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 5120 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1300 KB).
- Summary:
- Considered the inventor of the essay itself, Michel de Montaigne published Essays (Essais, literally "Attempts") in 1850. Known for his skill at merging serious intellectual debate with personal anecdotes, his vast work collects together some of the most influential essays the world has ever seen, shaping the thoughts Blaise Pascal, René Descartes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stefan Zweig, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Isaac Asimov among others. Montaigne stated that his aim in writing these works was to describe humankind, including himself, with complete frankness.
- Notes:
- Title from eBook information screen.
- ISBN:
- 9781620110645
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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