The Essays: A Selection by Michel de Montaigne, M.A. Screech (Translator)

The Essays: A Selection by Michel de Montaigne, M.A. Screech (Translator)A survey of one of the giants of Renaissance thought, The Essays: A Selection collects some of Michel de Montaigne's most startling and original works, translated from the French and edited with an introduction and notes by M. A. Screech in Penguin Classics. To overcome a crisis of melancholy after the death of his father, Montaigne withdrew to his country estates and began to write, and in the highly original essays that resulted he discussed themes

Colours and Shapes

In retrospect

beautiful basketball star

light me up so we do this right

he realizes that Louie is a hero

he of poor Newark

a small ship arrives to conduct an ecological survey of this vast but little-known environment

perish in an instant

Here are classic tales from writers including Truman Capote

it seems the ideal place to put an end to it all

Here an ageing poet exploited by her own children struggles for survival

and the stories we tell along the way