|    Login    |    Register

Filter Results

  • Large print only
  • Audiobooks only

Found 4 items


(Paperback)

By: Michel Montaigne

ISBN: 9780140178975
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1993
UK Publication Date: 25th March 1993
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
See more...

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 Learn How to Die," and "On Experience."


(Paperback)

By: Michel Montaigne

ISBN: 9780140446043
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1993
UK Publication Date: 25th February 1993
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
See more...

Containing various essays, this work discusses subjects as diverse as war-horses and cannibals, poetry and politics, sex and religion, love and friendship, ecstasy and experience.


(Paperback)

By: Michel Montaigne

ISBN: 9780140446029
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1993
UK Publication Date: 26th August 1993
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
See more...

To overcome a crisis of melancholy after the death of his father, Montaigne withdrew to his country estates and began to write. This title discusses Montaigne's themes such as fathers and children, conscience and cowardice, and coaches and cannibals.


(Paperback)

By: Michel Montaigne

ISBN: 9780140444933
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
See more...

Explores contemporary Christianity. This title searches for the true meaning of faith, and criticizes the tendency of mankind to create God in its own image. It describes the true role of man, the need to eschew personal arrogance, and the vital importance of faith if we are to understand our place in the universe.