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  • The Complete Essays

    de Michel Montaigne, M. A. Screech ...
    Traducido por 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. ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • The Essays

    de Michel Montaigne, M. A. Screech ...
    Traducido por M. A. Screech ...
    To overcome a crisis of melancholy after the death of his father, Montaigne withdrew to his country estates and began to write, and in the highly original essays that resulted he discussed themes such as fathers and children, conscience and cowardice, coaches and cannibals, and, above all, himself. On Some Lines of Virgil opens out into a frank discussion of sexuality and makes a revolutionary ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Gargantua and Pantagruel

    de Francois Rabelais, M. A. Screech ...
    Traducido por 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 ... Leer más

    $18.79 USD

  • An Apology for Raymond Sebond

    de Michel Montaigne, M. A. Screech ...
    Traducido por M. A. Screech ...
    An Apology for Raymond Sebond is widely regarded as the greatest of Montaigne's essays: a supremely eloquent expression of Christian scepticism. An empassioned defence of Sebond's fifteenth-century treatise on natural theology, it was inspired by the deep crisis of personal melancholy that followed the death of Montaigne's own father in 1568, and explores contemporary Christianity in prose that is ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • On Friendship

    de Michel de Montaigne ...
    Traducido por M. A. Screech ...
    Series series Penguin Great Ideas
    From the 100-part Penguin Great Ideas series comes a rumination on relationships, courtesy of one of the most influential French Renaissance philosophers.Michel de Montaigne was the originator of the modern essay form; in these diverse pieces he expresses his views on friendship, contemplates the idea that man is no different from any animal, argues that all cultures should be respected, and ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • On Solitude

    de Michel de Montaigne ...
    Traducido por M. A. Screech ...
    Series series Penguin Great Ideas
    Blending intellectual speculation with anecdote and personal reflection, the Renaissance thinker and writer Montaigne pioneered the modern essay. This selection contains his idiosyncratic and timeless writings on subjects as varied as the virtues of solitude, the power of the imagination, the pleasures of reading, the importance of sleep and why we sometimes laugh and cry at the same things ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Laughter At The Foot Of The Cross

    de M.a. Screech ...
    "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 Old and New Testaments is a dangerous one. But we are fortunate in our gu ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

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    The Essays

    de Michel Montaigne, M. A. Screech ...
    Narrado por Thomas Judd ...

    Completo

    16 hora 55 minutos

    Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is performed by Thomas Judd. This definitive recording includes an introduction by M. A. Screech.A survey of one of the giants of Renaissance thought, The Essays: A Selection collects some of Michel de Montaigne's most startling and original works, translated from the French and edited with an introduction and notes by M.A. Screech in Penguin Classics ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

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    Montaigne

    de Stefan Zweig ...
    Narrado por Tyler Boss ...

    Completo

    2 hora 52 minutos

    "The others form the human being, I depict him; and here I present an individual who is quite poorly formed and whom I would certainly make largely differently if I had to reshape him. But now that's the way he is." This phrase from the famous essays of Michel de Montaigne outlines the character of the author and his work. Montaigne wrote his essays not from a position of certainty but an from ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: eBooks

    Disponible también en: eBooks

  • The Anatomy of Melancholy

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Consolation of Philosophy

    de 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' ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The Story of the Stone (Volume I)

    de Cao Xueqin ...
    Traducido por John Minford ...
    Series Libro 1 - The Story of the Stone
    The Story of the Stone (c.1760) is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature. The first part of the story, The Golden Days, begins the tale of Bao-yu, a gentle young boy who prefers girls to Confucian studies, and his two cousins: Bao-chai, his parents' choice of a wife for him, and the ethereal beauty Dai-yu. Through the changing fortunes of the Jia family, this rich, magical work sets ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD