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Great Ideas: On Solitude by Michel de Montaigne
$9.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
For the true bibliophile and design-savvy book lover, here is the next set of Penguin's celebrated Great Ideas series by some of history's most innovative thinkers. Acclaimed for their striking and elegant package, each volume features a unique type-driven design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Off ...Show more
How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing : Little Black Classic by Michel de Montaigne
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 29
'No one characteristic clasps us purely and universally in its embrace.' A selection of charming essays from a master of the genre exploring the contradictions inherent to human thought, words and actions. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics cel ...Show more
Shakespeare's Montaigne by Michel de Montaigne
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Category: Essays
Shakespeare, Nietzsche once wrote, was Montaigne's best reader. It is a typically brilliant Nietzschean insight, capturing the intimate relationship between the ever-changing record of the mutable self constituted by Montaigne's Essays and Shakespeare's kaleidoscopic register of human character. For all ...Show more
The Complete Essays by Michel Montaigne, de Montaigne Michel
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Category: Words & Ideas | Series: Classics Ser.
In 1572 Montaigne retired to his estates in order to devote himself to leisure, reading and thinking. There he wrote his constantly expanding 'assays', inspired by ideas he found in the books of his library and his own experience. He discussed subjects as diverse as war-horses and cannibals, poetry and ...Show more
What Do I Know?: Essential Essays by Michel de Montaigne
$33.00 AUD
Category: Essays
A selection of Michel de Montaigne's most profound, searching essays, in a new translation and stunning hardback edition
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