On Solitude (Montaigne Michel)(Paperback)

On Solitude (Montaigne Michel)(Paperback)

On Solitude (Montaigne Michel de)(Paperback / softback)

Blending intellectual speculation with anecdote and personal reflection, the Renaissance thinker and writer Montaigne pioneered the modern essay. This selection contains his idiosyncratic writings on subjects as varied as the virtues of solitude, the power of the imagination, the pleasures of

The Complete Essays (Montaigne Michel)(Paperback)

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

Complete Essays of Montaigne (Montaigne Michel Eyquem)(Paperback)

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

Montaigne: A Very Short Introduction (Hamlin William M.)(Paperback)

The French author Michel de Montaigne is widely regarded as the founder and greatest practitioner of the personal essay. A member of the minor aristocracy, he worked as a judicial investigator, served as mayor of Bordeaux, and sought to bring stability to his war-torn country during the latter half

The Essays: A Selection (Montaigne Michel)(Paperback)

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. To overcome a crisis of melancholy after

Essays (Montaigne Michel)(Paperback)

Reflections by the creator of the essay form display the humane, skeptical, humorous, and honest views of Montaigne, revealing his thoughts on sexuality, religion, cannibals, intellectuals, and other unexpected themes. Included are such celebrated works as 'On Solitude,' 'To Philosophize Is to

On Friendship (Montaigne Michel de)(Paperback / softback)

Expresses the author's views on relationships. This title contemplates the idea that man is no different from any animal, argues that all cultures should be respected, and helps us to understand the nature of

Complete Works - Essays, Travel Journal, Letters (De Montaigne Michel)(Pevná vazba)

Describing his collection of Essays as 'a book consubstantial with its author', Montaigne identified both the power and the charm of a work which introduces us to one of the most attractive figures in European

On Essays: Montaigne to the Present (Karshan Thomas)(Paperback)

Montaigne called it a ramble; Chesterton the joke of literature; and Hume an ambassador between the worlds of learning and of conversation. But what is an essay, and how did it emerge as a literary form? What are the continuities and contradictions across its history, from Montaigne's 1580 Essais

A History of Solitude (Vincent David)(Paperback)

Solitude has always had an ambivalent status: the capacity to enjoy being alone can make sociability bearable, but those predisposed to solitude are often viewed with suspicion or pity. Drawing on a wide array of literary and historical sources, David Vincent explores how people have conducted

Solitude: Memories, People, Places (Waite Terry)(Paperback)

Some people long to find it, others long to escape it. But, whether we welcome or dread it, solitude is something we all experience in different forms at different points in our lives. After enduring nearly five years of solitary confinement, in cruel and terrifying conditions, Terry Waite

Solitude - In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World (Harris Michael)(Paperback / softback)

Invitation to Solitude and Silence - Experiencing God's Transforming Presence (Barton Ruth Haley)(Paperback / softback)

Disordered Minds (Walters Minette)(Paperback / softback)

A dark, gripping tale of solitude and

Montaigne - Stefan Zweig

How to Live - A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer (Bakewell Sarah)(Paperback / softback)

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez Gabriel Garcia)(Paperback / softback)

One of the most influential literary works of our time, One Hundred Years of Solitude remains a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Garcia Marquez Gabriel)(Paperback)

Gabriel Garc a M rquez's finest and most famous work, the Nobel Prize-winning One Hundred Years of Solitude chronicles, through the course of a century, life in Macondo and the lives of six Buend a generations-from Jos Arcadio and rsula, through their son, Colonel Aureliano Buend a (who commands

Montaigne (Zweig Stefan)(Paperback)

A brilliant and impassioned biography of one of the founding fathers of humanism, from one of its greatest defenders in the 20th century Written during the Second World War, Zweig's typically passionate and readable biography of Michel de Montaigne, is also a heartfelt argument for the importance

Montaigne: A Life (Desan Philippe)(Paperback)

A definitive biography of the great French essayist and thinkerOne of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before. But did he do it, as he suggests in his Essays,

A History of Solitude (Vincent David)(Pevná vazba)

Solitude has always had an ambivalent status: the capacity to enjoy being alone can make sociability bearable, but those predisposed to solitude are often viewed with suspicion or pity. Drawing on a wide array of literary and historical sources, David Vincent explores how people have conducted

Solitude: A Return to the Self (Storr Anthony)(Paperback)

Originally published in 1988, Anthony Storr's bestselling meditation on the creative individual's need for solitude has become a classic.A pre-eminent work in self-help and popular psychology literature, Solitude was seminal in challenging the psychological paradigm that 'interpersonal

Too Loud a Solitude (Hrabal Bohumil)(Paperback)

A short novel by Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal, called 'our very best writer today' by Milan Kundera, this eccentric romp celebrates the indestructability--against censorship and political oppression--of the written word. Too Loud a Solitude is a tender and funny story of Hanta--a man who has lived