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"Literature."
"Volledige vertaling van de overpeinzingen van de Franse filosoof (1533-1592)."
"Essays is a book written by Michel de Montaigne that was first published in 1580. Montaigne essentially invented the literary form of essay, a short subjective treatment of a given topic, of which the book contains a large number. Essai is French for "trial" or "attempt". Montaigne wrote in a kind of crafted rhetoric designed to intrigue and involve the reader, sometimes appearing to move in a stream-of-thought from topic to topic and at other times employing a structured style which gives more emphasis to the didactic nature of his work ..."@en
"Essays."
"Translates selections from sixteenth-century French writer Michel de Montaigne's "Essays," a collection that presents Montaigne's philosophical opinions on a wide variety of subjects, including books, relationships, cruelty, and smells."@en
"Blending intellectual speculation with anecdote and personal reflection, the Renaissance thinker and writer Michel de Montaigne pioneered the modern essay form. This edition contains all of his idiosyncratic and timeless writings on subjects as varied as the virtues of solitude, the power of the imagination, the pleasures of reading, the importance of sleep and why we sometimes laugh and cry at the same things. The essays are among the most striking and personal works in all literature, which continue to give pleasure and enlightenment to modern readers. Montaigne's complete Essays, translated by Michael Screech, are presented here as a beautifully produced, luxury hardback. This oversize volume is bound in high-quality rich blue cloth and embellished with gold foil stamped into the design."
"Living at a time of religious strife and the decline of the intellectual optimism that had begun in the Renaissance, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) expressed in his writings both a deep skepticism about human affairs and a wide-ranging intellectual curiosity reflective of the age. Having witnessed firsthand the bloody armed conflicts, fanaticism, and persecutions that arose out of religious differences between French Catholics and Protestant Huguenots, Montaigne was especially skeptical about human claims to knowledge. For this reason he published not systematic philosophy but mere attempts at knowledge, essays in understanding, or essais, as he called them in French. He thus inaugurated a new literary genre that proved to be very influential. Despite his skepticism, Montaigne realized that the intellectual horizon of his day was full of exciting new developments. The New World had only recently been discovered, and explorers to many parts of the hitherto undiscovered world were bringing back reports of strange lands, people, and customs. At the same time, the intellectual discoveries of the Renaissance had uncovered the powerful works of ancient Greek and Latin authors, and science, still in its infancy, was beginning to ask important new questions."@en

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"Tekstuitgave"
"Niet-verhalend proza"
"Eseje francuskie"
"Electronic books"@en
"Vertalingen (vorm)"
"Szkice literackie francuskie"
"Early works"@en
"Early works"
"Livres électroniques"
"Essays (teksten)"
"Biography"
"Translations"
"Translations"@en

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"Essays = Essais"@en
"The essays [translated by John Florio.]"@en
"[The essays [translated by John Florio.]]"@en
"De essays"
"Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne : with notes and quotations, and an account of the author's life"@en
"Essays= Denemeler"@en
"Essays von Michel de Montaigne"
"Die Essays"
"Essays, by Montaigne, edited... and annotated by the author of "the Gentle life" [J. H. Friswell]"
"Essays. Translated with an introduction by J.M. Cohen"@en
"The Essays"@en
"The Essays"
"Essays by Montaigne"@en
"Essays"@da
"Essays"
"Essays"@en
"The essays"@en
"The essays"
"The essays : [translated by John Florio]"@en
"Essays [Hauptbd.]"
"Die Essays : [Auswahl.]"

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