| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (53hr., 11 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Series |
Penguin classics.
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| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Peter Wickham. |
| Summary |
In 1572, Montaigne - nobleman, humanist, and thoroughly Renaissance man - retired to the seclusion of his estate in the Dordogne and started to write. From his pen poured a stream of 'essays' - attempts to capture the observations that came to him on an idiosyncratic range of subjects, from ancient customs, cannibals and books to thumbs, war-horses and the wearing of clothes. He made the study of himself the starting point for investigations into how to live, and wrote with a startlingly modern candour about love, grief, friendship, sex and death. His voice, by turns lively, curious, digressive, ironic and moving, is utterly captivating. The Essays feel less like a work of literature and more like an ongoing conversation with a very well-informed friend. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592 -- Translations into English.
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Philosophy, Renaissance.
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| Added Author |
Screech, M. A. (Michael Andrew)
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781781983539 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1781983534 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14596472 |
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