The Essays: A Selection (Penguin Classics)

Montaigne goes on his adventures of mind, and explores worlds seemingly far from his own , and yet always somehow leads us back to himself. His digressions and his ramblings in thought mark a new stage of discovery in the human mind's quest to know and understand itself. Like his great contemporary Shakespeare he belongs to an old world dying, and a new world not yet quite born which he in straddling makes anew. Whatever the subject he opens up for those who come after a new way of thinking and exploring.

• | Author: Michel de Montaigne
• | Publisher: Penguin Classics
• | Publication Date: May 03, 1994
• | Number of Pages: 480 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0140446028
• | ISBN-13: 9780140446029