The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters (HB)

Michel de Montaigne; Donald Frame (trans.); Stuart Hampshire (intro)

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 literature. A humanist, a sceptic, an acute observer of himself and others, he reflects the gr...