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  • The Complete Essays of Montaigne

    by Michel Eyquem Montaigne ...
    Translated by Donald M Frame ...
    "One does not seem to be reading a translation, so smooth and easy is the style . . . one seems to be listening to Montaigne himself." —Andre Maurois, The New York Times Book ReviewThis new translation of Montaigne's immortal Essays received great acclaim when it was first published in The Complete Works of Montaigne in the 1957 edition. The New York Times said, "It is a matter for rejoicing that ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Complete Essays of Montaigne

    by Seigneur de Michel Eyquem Montaigne ...
    Translated by Donald M. Frame ...
    This new translation of Montaigne's immortal Essays received great acclaim when it was first published in The Complete Works of Montaigne in the 1957 edition. The New York Times said, "It is a matter for rejoicing that we now have available a new translation that offers definite advantages over even the best of its predecessors," and The New Republic stated that this edition gives "a more adequate ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Candide (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

    by Voltaire ...
    Translated by Donald M. Frame ...
    "As fresh and pertinent as ever." -Julian Barnes, The GuardianA NEWLY REVISED EDITIONCandide, Voltaire's magnum opus,is a matchless satirical takedown of religion, theologians, governments, armies, philosophies, and philosophers. The novella unfolds as the sheltered and privileged Candide, a young man enraptured by his facile mentor Pangloss, experiences the hardships and injustices of life, ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • The Misanthrope and Other Plays

    by Jean-Baptiste Moliere, Lewis Seifert ...
    The Misanthrope * The Doctor in Spite of Himself * The Miser * The Would-Be Gentleman * The Mischievous Machinations of Scapin * The Learned Women * The Imaginary Invalid“The comedy,” Molière once quipped, “is excellent, and they who deride it deserve to be derided.”Written during the triumphant final years of Molière’s career, these seven works represent the mature flowering of his artistry and ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Tartuffe and Other Plays

    by Jean-Baptiste Moliere ...
    Translated by Donald M. Frame ...
    Seven plays by the genius of French theater.Including The Ridiculous Precieuses, The School for Husbands, The School for Wives, Don Juan, The Versailles Impromptu, and The Critique of the School for Wives, this collection showcases the talent of perhaps the greatest and best-loved French playwright.Translated and with an Introduction by Donald M. FrameWith a Foreword by Virginia Scott</str... ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Zadig

    Or, Destiny (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

    by Voltaire ...
    Translated by Donald M. Frame ...
    Zadig, first published in 1748, is classic Voltaire-witty, mischievous, and incisive. In this swift, sparkling tale Voltaire turns the misadventures of one decent man into a comedy of errors about the human condition. Set in a fantastical Babylon of scheming courtiers, fickle lovers, and arbitrary laws, the story follows Zadig-a man whose intelligence and good intentions prove, again and again, to ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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  • The Complete Essays

    by Michel Montaigne, M. A. Screech ...
    Translated by M. A. Screech ...
    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 M.A. Screech.In 1572 Montaigne retired to his estates in order to devote himself to leisure, reading and reflection. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Anatomy of Melancholy

    by Robert Burton ...
    'The best book ever written' Nicholas Lezard, GuardianRobert Burton's labyrinthine, beguiling, playful masterpiece is his attempt to 'anatomize and cut up' every aspect of the condition of melancholy, from which he had suffered throughout his life. Ranging over beauty, digestion, the planets, alcohol, goblins, kissing, poetry and the restorative power of books, among many other things, The Anatomy ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • How to Live

    A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer

    by Sarah Bakewell ...
    How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live?This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), who wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience, unlike anything written before. Into these essays he put whatever was in his head: his tastes in wine and food, his childhood memories, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Gargantua and Pantagruel

    by Francois Rabelais, M. A. Screech ...
    Translated by M. A. Screech ...
    The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c. 1471-1553) expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene humour, while intertwining the realistic with carnivalesque fantasy to make us look afresh at the world. Gargantua depicts a young giant, reduced to laughable insanity by an education at the hands of paternal ignorance, old crones and syphilitic professors, who is ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Consolation of Philosophy

    by Anicius Boethius ...
    Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in Pavia, it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned. THE CONSOLATION was written in the period leading up to his brutal execution. It is a dialogue of alternating prose and verse between the ailing prisoner and his 'nurse' ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Pensees

    by Blaise Pascal ...
    Translated by A. Krailsheimer ...
    A passionate defence of religious faith by the great seventeenth-century philosopher, mathematician and physicistBlaise Pascal was the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. The Pensées is a collection of philosophical fragments, notes and essays in which he explores the contradictions of ... Read more

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