Description: Montaigne: Selected Essays edited by Blanchard Batestranslated by Charles-W. C. Hazlitt Modern Library editionhardcover in good used condition "To bring within the compass of one volume the best of the essays written by Michel de Montaigne in a translation that is both faithful and modern has long been the aim of the editors of this series. The existing English renderings are either so archaic or are sometimes so colloquial as to lose some of the original nuances of meaning. Accordingly, with the Charles Cotton- W. C. Hazlitt translation as a basis, Professor Blanchard Bates of the Department of Romance Languages, Princeton University here undertakes a revised and modernized collection in language that remains the substance and conveys the spirit of the French originator and master of the essay form. During his lifetime, Montaigne was admired more as a statesman than as an author. The tendency in his essays to digress into anecdotes and personal ruminations was seen as detrimental to proper style rather than as an innovation, and his declaration that "I am myself the matter of my book" was viewed by his contemporaries as self-indulgent. In time, however, Montaigne came to be recognized as embodying, perhaps better than any other author of his time, the spirit of freely entertaining doubt that began to emerge at that time."
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Author: Montaigne
Book Title: Selected Essays
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Modern Library
Literary Movement: Modernism
Language: English
Genre: History, Philosophy
