Michel Montaigne: 115 books

« Les Essais, Livre Trois » est la suite des Essais, Livre Un et Essais, Livre Deux. Tout le monde connaît Les Essais, et ce dès la fin du Seizième siècle, en France comme à l'étranger (lu par Shakespeare, mentionné dans Volpone de Ben Jonson, dans la bibliothèque de Robert Burns...), mais...

Leggere Montaigne è come viaggiare, partirealla scoperta di paesi lontani insieme a un amico. Perché Montaigne, per tutti quelli che dal Cinquecento in poi lo hanno letto e inevitabilmente se ne sono innamorati, continua a essere questo: un consigliere, un insegnante, ma prima di tutto un amico.La...

Montaigne inicia la redacción de esta obra que le ocupará hasta la fecha de su muerte en 1592. Dos años antes había vendido su puesto como Consejero del Parlamanto de Burdeos para retirarse a su castillo en el Périgord. No será la redacción de los Ensayos...

Montaigne inicia la redacción de esta obra que le ocupará hasta la fecha de su muerte en 1592. Dos años antes había vendido su puesto como Consejero del Parlamanto de Burdeos para retirarse a su castillo en el Périgord. No será la redacción de los Ensayos...

Leggere Montaigne è come vedersi riflessi in uno specchio attraverso le parole di un amico. E a un dialogo con un amico saggio e stravagante assomiglia la lettura di questa selezione dei Saggi. In Sopravvivi all’amore lo sguardo è rivolto all’intimità del soggetto, caratterizzato da sentimenti...

Montaigne's stated goal in his book is to describe man, and especially himself, with utter frankness and honesty ("bonne foi"). He finds the great variety and volatility of human nature to be its most basic features, which resonates to the Renaissance thought about the fragility of humans....

He's a thirty-fifth-century hippie named Random Chance. He lives in a spacegoing RV that looks like a sea turtle. He loves ancient rock n' roll music. He christened his ship The Pompatus of Love. The deep space between the planets of the solar system is his home. He's got friends, most...

I've written free-verse poetry off and on my entire life. In 2004, my partner shared a download of UltraFractal 3 with me, and since then I've regularly created fractals as well. I've got well over five hundred now; this volume features twenty-four of my favorites. Often while creating fractals I'm...

For too long I accepted the herd’s definition of perfection. For too long I ate quickly, and the food wasn’t real. For too long I ignored the call out my window. I was trying to be just like everyone else, after all.

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...

Otoro Queril is feared by his fellow Tracluse. As an executioner for Necrolius Anaxagorius' Imperium, it's Otoro's job to kill those poor souls brought to his chopping block, and to do it as efficiently and quickly as possible. No one in the Imperium does it better. Otoro Queril does not tire....

What came first, the shadow or the leaf it falls upon, the sunlight or the pain? Painted yellow, what calls, and what echoes, and what cries through the valley; And what strains the surface of things when joy surges and the depths reach up, and the wet sand dries and blows unseen to the dune ... And what settles over my head, misty and mysterious, indivisibly fine ...

How to push on? I don’t really know. Like her, the world wishes me gone. There is so much work yet. I pound the keys with one hand, the other thrust up, middle finger extended. She reproves me, but I know deep down she feels the same way. I can feel it. Momentum and energy.

Anurag de Bouchard is on a mission. He's waited half his lifetime for this moment. At last he can light the beacon that will spread the news across the whole of Aquanus: The Apprentice has come. All across the vast, dangerous waters of that ocean world, thousands of revolutionaries are...