How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell Paperback Book

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

Author: Sarah Bakewell

Format: Quality Paperback, Unabridged-MP3

Publisher: Other Press

Published: Oct 2011

Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Philosophers

Retail Price: $20.99

Pages: 400

Synopsis

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 anything written before. More than four hundred years later, Montaigne's honesty and charm still draw people to him. Readers come to him in search of companionship, wisdom, and entertainment —and in search of themselves. Just as they will to this spirited and singular biography.

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