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How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

Paperback • 2011 • English

How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

By Sarah Bakewell

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About the book

Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love such questions arise in most people s lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: How do you live? This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, considered by many to be the first truly modern individual. He wrote free-roaming explorations of his thoughts and experience, unlike anythi...Show more

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ISBN

9781590514832

Publisher

Other Press (NY)

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

Format

Paperback

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