"Christian laughter is a maze: you could easily get snarled up within it." So says Michael A. Screech in his note to readers preceding this collection of fifty-three elegant and pithy essays. As Screech reveals, the question of whether laughter is acceptable to the god of the Ol…
"Christian laughter is a maze: you could easily get snarled up within it." So says Michael A. Screech in his note to readers preceding this collection of fifty-three elegant and pithy essays. As Screech reveals, the question of whether laughter is acceptable to the god of the Ol…
by Screech, M. A., (Michael Andrew), Montaigne, Michel de
fromPenguin classics
by Screech, M. A., (Michael Andrew), Montaigne, Michel de
fromPenguin classics
by Screech, M. A., (Michael Andrew), Montaigne, Michel de
fromPenguin classics
by Screech, M. A., (Michael Andrew), Montaigne, Michel de
fromPenguin classics
by Screech, M. A., (Michael Andrew), Montaigne, Michel de
fromPenguin classics
by Screech, M. A., (Michael Andrew), Montaigne, Michel de
fromPenguin classics
'I myself am the subject of my book: it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain' In 1572 Montaigne retired to his estates in order to devote himself to leisure, reading and thinking. There he wrote his constantly expanding 'assay…
by Screech, M. A., (Michael Andrew), Montaigne, Michel de
fromPenguin classics
Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form. This Penguin Classics edition of The Complete Essays is translated from the French and edited with an introduction and notes …
by Montaigne, Michel de, Screech, M. A., (Michael Andrew)
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The range of topics and the careful consideration given to them by Montaigne is unsurpassed; he studies humanity through poetry, love and ectasy - but also through cannibalism and war-horses.
