The Complete Essays - Michel de Montaigne, Charles Cotton torrent

Category: Classic, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: French Philosophy

Written by Michel de Montaigne, Charles Cotton
Read by Peter Wickham
Format: M4B
Bitrate: Variable
Unabridged

Length: 53 hrs and 12 mins

[Translated by Charles Cotton]

In 1572, Montaigne - nobleman, humanist, and thoroughly Renaissance man - retired to the seclusion of his estate in the Dordogne and started to write. From his pen poured a stream of “essays” - attempts to capture the observations that came to him on an idiosyncratic range of subjects, from ancient customs, cannibals, and books to thumbs, war-horses, and the wearing of clothes. He made the study of himself the starting point for investigations into how to live, and wrote with a startlingly modern candor about love, grief, friendship, sex, and death. His voice, by turns lively, curious, digressive, ironic, and moving, is utterly captivating. The Essays feel less like a work of literature and more like an ongoing conversation with a very well-informed friend.

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