Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 06 by Michel de Montaigne
"Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 06" by Michel de Montaigne is part of a collection of essays written between approximately 1570 and 1592. Montaigne's informal yet literate style blends learned references with everyday language as he explores topics ranging from the profound to the trivial. Writing during France's religious wars, he examines human nature through skeptical inquiry, questioning the certainty of reason and experience. His conversational explorations of life, knowledge,
and mortality reveal a mind in constant search, freely associating ideas without claiming definitive answers. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592 |
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| Editor | Hazlitt, William Carew, 1834-1913 |
| Translator | Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687 |
| Title | Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 06 |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essays_(Montaigne) |
| Contents | Of friendship -- Nine-and-twenty sonnets of Estienne de la Boetie -- Of moderation -- Of cannibals -- That a man is soberly to judge of the divine ordinances -- That we are to avoid pleasures, even at the expense of life -- That fortune is oftentimes observed to act by the rule of reason -- Of one defect in our government -- Of the custom of wearing clothes -- Of Cato the Younger -- That we laugh and cry for the same thing -- Of solitude. |
| Credits | Produced by David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 50.0 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | French essays -- Translations into English |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 3586 |
| Release Date | Nov 1, 2004 |
| Most Recently Updated | Jan 8, 2021 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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