We were required to read Francis Bacon's essays for college this week and let me tell you this, it is IMPOSSIBLE to understand them without any exterior help. I thank my brilliant English teacher for turning this text into something that made sense to me. I was deeply affected and they made me think...
I read this for a class in college. I can't remember too much about it, but I seem to remember liking some of the essays.
Okay, call me obsessive compulsive, but when I start a book I feel obligated to finish it -- no matter how boring it is -- and I finished this one, but believe me, it was very boring. I decided to read it because I had never read anything by Bacon before and on impulse I thought I might learn someth...