Montaigne and Melancholy: The Wisdom of the "Essays" - Hardcover
A study of the French essayist and sceptical philosopher, Montaigne.
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A probing, loving companion to the masterwork.--Nicholas Wollaston "Observer "
A sensitive probe into how Montaigne resolved for himself the age-old ambiguities of melancholia and, in doing so, spoke of what he called the 'human condition'.--Roy Porter "London Review Of Books "
Original and important. . . . His study will easily fulfil its avowed aim of making Montaigne's Essays more comprehensible and more enjoyable.--James Supple "Times Higher Education "
An invaluable literary companion to the essays of Montaigne ... the insights it provides are remarkable.--Anthony Storr "Sunday Times "
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A sensitive probe into how Montaigne resolved for himself the age-old ambiguities of melancholia and, in doing so, spoke of what he called the 'human condition'.--Roy Porter "London Review Of Books "
Original and important. . . . His study will easily fulfil its avowed aim of making Montaigne's Essays more comprehensible and more enjoyable.--James Supple "Times Higher Education "
An invaluable literary companion to the essays of Montaigne ... the insights it provides are remarkable.--Anthony Storr "Sunday Times "
M. A. Screech, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls and Extraordinary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, is a Renaissance scholar of international renown.
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- PublisherGerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 0715616986
- ISBN 13 9780715616987
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages194
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