Complete Essays: Volume 2
$106.09
- Hardcover
704 pages
- Release Date
9 February 2026
Summary
Hume’s Unsettling Peace: Essays That Shook the Enlightenment
A superb new edition of essays by one of the greatest and most enjoyable prose writers in English. David Hume reshaped, redirected, and re-energized the English essay. His skeptical, rational, self-questioning persona created what amounted to a new intellectual arena, in which it was possible to think afresh about the world and the self. When he famously wrote that “the life of man is of no greater importance to the univer…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241730867 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241730864 |
| Author: | David Hume, David Womersley |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 704 |
| Release Date: | 9 February 2026 |
| Weight: | 750g |
| Dimensions: | 240mm x 156mm x 40mm |
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About The Author
David Hume
David Womersley is the Thomas Warton Professor of Literature at the University of Oxford. Among his interests are Jonathan Swift (he was the general editor of the CUP edition of Swift), Daniel Defoe and Edward Gibbon, whose Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire he edited for Penguin Classics.
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