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How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer (Paperback)
Sarah Bakewell (author)
£10.99
Paperback
400 Pages /
Published: 06/01/2011
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How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live?
This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), who wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience, unlike anything written before. Into these essays he put whatever was in his head: his tastes in wine and food, his childhood memories, the way his dog's ears twitched when it was dreaming, events in the appalling civil wars raging around him. The Essays was an instant bestseller, and over four hundred years later, readers still come to him in search of companionship, wisdom and entertainment - and in search of themselves.
This first full biography of Montaigne in English for nearly fifty years relates the story of his life by way of the questions he posed and the answers he explored.
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099485155
Number of pages: 400
Weight: 343 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 29 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
"With this splendidly conceived and exquisitely written double biography - of both Montaigne the man and Montaigne the book - Sarah Bakewell should persuade another generation to fall in love with Montaigne" * Sunday Times *
"How to live is a superb, spirited introduction to the master, and should have its readers rushing straight to the essays themselves" -- Adam Thorpe * Guardian *
"Sarah Bakewell has written a marvellously confident and clear introduction to Montaigne...a rare achievement. Sarah Bakewell deserves congratulations for opening Montaigne to new readers so very appealingly" * Evening Standard *
"Illuminating and humane book... It's rare to come across a biographer who remains so deliciously fond of her subject... How to Live will delight and illuminate" * Independent *
"Bakewell writes with verve. This is an intellectually lively treatment of a Renaissance giant and his world" * Daily Telegraph *
"How to live is a superb, spirited introduction to the master, and should have its readers rushing straight to the essays themselves" -- Adam Thorpe * Guardian *
"Sarah Bakewell has written a marvellously confident and clear introduction to Montaigne...a rare achievement. Sarah Bakewell deserves congratulations for opening Montaigne to new readers so very appealingly" * Evening Standard *
"Illuminating and humane book... It's rare to come across a biographer who remains so deliciously fond of her subject... How to Live will delight and illuminate" * Independent *
"Bakewell writes with verve. This is an intellectually lively treatment of a Renaissance giant and his world" * Daily Telegraph *
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