MONTAIGNE / essays (Complete with Table of Contents)
MONTAIGNE'S ESSAYS FOR KINDLEComplete with Table of Contents“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.” (Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays)Imagine someone who has the most enlightened thoughts in a wide variety of topics whether you read it for pleasure or...
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MONTAIGNE'S ESSAYS FOR KINDLEComplete with Table of Contents“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.” (Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays)Imagine someone who has the most enlightened thoughts in a wide variety of topics whether you read it for pleasure or for serious study. That's Montaigne.Because this book is provided with a Table of Contents, you can easily access the essays you're most interested in with your Kindle.Take a look at some essay's titles available in this kindle book:Of a Monstrous ChildOf AgeOf Ancient CustomsOf AngerOf BooksOf CannibalsOf CoachesOf ConscienceOf ConstancyOf CripplesOf CrueltyOf Custom, and that We Should Not Easily Change a Law ReceivedOf DiversionOf DrunkennessOf ExperienceOf FearOf FriendshipOf Giving the LieOf GloryOf IdlenessOf Ill Means Employed to a Good EndOf Judging of the Death of AnotherOf LiarsOf Liberty of ConscienceOf Managing the WillOf ModerationOf NamesOf One Defect in Our GovernmentOf PedantryOf PhysiognomyOf PostingOf PrayersOf PresumptionOf Profit and HonestyOf PrognosticationsOf Quick or Slow SpeechOf Recompenses of HonourOf RepentanceOf SleepOf SmellsOf SolitudeOf SorrowOf Sumptuary LawsOf the Affection of Fathers to Their ChildrenOf the Art of ConferenceOf the Custom of Wearing ClothesOf the Education of ChildrenOf the Force of ImaginationOf the Inconstancy of Our ActionsOf the Inconvenience of GreatnessOf the Inequality Amoungst UsOf the Most Excellent MenOf the Parsimony of the AncientsOf the Punishment of CowardiceOf the Resemblance of Children to Their FathersOf the Uncertainty of Our JudgmentOf the Vanity of WordsOf Three CommercesOf Three Good WomenOf ThumbsOf Vain SubtletiesOf VanityOf VirtueOf War Horses, or DestriersAnd you will find many, many other topics because this book contains Montaigne's complete essays. Imagine something important and it's very likely that Montaigne has written an essay about it.“When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.” (Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays)Do as Montaigne: run to this book, because it will banish the clouds from your mind as it did for the following remarkable people.“No book before or since was ever so much to me as Montaigne's essays.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)“You ask me what to read. Read Montaigne
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ASIN: B009NNTUBA
Publish date: October 8th 2012
Publisher: POPULAR CLASSICAL BOOKS
Pages no: 427
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Philosophy,
France,
French Literature,
16th Century