How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

By Sarah Bakewell

Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 2010.

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Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Publish Date: 09/20/2011
Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9781590514832
ISBN-10: 1590514831
Language: English

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, from the author of Humanly Possible

How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love--such questions arise in most people's lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: How do you live? This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, considered by many to be the first truly modern individual. He wrote free-roaming explorations of his thoughts and experience, unlike anything written before. More than four hundred years later, Montaigne's honesty and charm still draw people to him. Readers come to him in search of companionship, wisdom, and entertainment --and in search of themselves. Just as they will to this spirited and singular biography.

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Sarah Bakewell was a bookseller and a curator of early printed books at the Wellcome Library before publishing her highly acclaimed biographies The Smart, The English Dane , and the best-selling How to Live: A Life of Montaigne , which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography.

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