 | Sarah Bakewell - Biography & Autobiography - 2011 - 344 pages
The Smart is a true drama of eighteenth-century life with a mercurial, mysterious heroine. Caroline is a young Irishwoman who runs off to marry a soldier, comes to London and ... | |
 | Philippe Desan - Biography & Autobiography - 2017 - 832 pages
A definitive biography of the great French essayist and thinker One of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) helped invent a ... | |
 | Philippe Desan - Literary Criticism - 2016 - 480 pages
In 1580, Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) published a book unique by its title and its content: Essays"R. A literary genre was born. At first sight, the Essays resemble a ... | |
 | Biancamaria Fontana - Philosophy - 2010 - 216 pages
Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) is principally known today as a literary figure--the inventor of the modern essay and the pioneer of autobiographical self-exploration who retired ... | |
 | Ullrich Langer - Philosophy - 2005
Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), the great Renaissance skeptic and pioneer of the essay form, is known for his innovative method of philosophical inquiry which mixes the ... | |
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