Books by Sarah Bakewell
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English
review 1: If you want to read about the life of Montaigne, best stick to his autobiographical musings straight from the horse's mouth as it were: his "essays".But if you really want to know all about his life, and EVERYTHING that was going on around him, putting his observations into histo...
language
English
review 1: A biography of literature's first essayist organized around twenty-one answers to the question: How to Live?Bakewell's exploration of Michel de Montaigne gives us a good sense of the man, his time and his philosophy...or rather his attempt to arrive at a philosophy. Montaigne was...