What Do I Know?
Essential Essays
$26.22
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
27 January 2026
Summary
A selection of Michel de Montaigne’s most profound, searching essays, in a new translation and stunning hardback edition featuring an introduction by Yiyun Li
‘I myself am the subject of my book’. So wrote Montaigne in the introductory note to his Essays, the book that marked the birth of the modern essay form. In works of probing intelligence and idiosyncratic observation, Montaigne moved from intimate personal reflection to roving theories of the conduct of kings and cannib…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781782278832 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1782278834 |
| Author: | Michel de Montaigne, David Coward, Yiyun Li |
| Publisher: | Pushkin Press |
| Imprint: | Pushkin Press Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 27 January 2026 |
| Weight: | 182g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
| Series: | Pushkin Press Deluxe Classic |
About The Author
Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) was born on his family estate in Aquitaine, not far from Bordeaux. Raised speaking Greek and Latin, he studied law before embarking on a career of public service, first as a counselor of court in Périgueux and Bordeaux, then as a courtier to Charles IX. Following the death of his father, Montaigne retired from public life to the Tower of his château to read and write. He published the first two volumes of his landmark Essays in 1580, with a third following in 1588; the complete Essays appeared posthumously in 1595.
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