{"product_id":"what-do-i-know-essential-essays-9781782278818","title":"What Do I Know?: Essential Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eIn a new translation and stunning hardback edition, Michel de Montaigne's Essays offer profound insight into a great Renaissance mind, moving from intimate personal reflection to theories of kings, cannibals, sorrow, fear, and human memory and judgment. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 192 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 05 October 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Pushkin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA collection of Michel de Montaigne's most profound and thought-provoking essays, in a new translation and stunning hardback edition featuring an introduction by Yiyun Li\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eI myself am the subject of my book, wrote Montaigne in the introductory note to his Essays, the book that marked the birth of the modern essay form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn works of probing intelligence and idiosyncratic observation, Montaigne moved from intimate personal reflection to roving theories of the conduct of kings and cannibals, the effects of sorrow and fear, and the fallibility of human memory and judgment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new selection of Montaigne's most ingenious essays appears in a lucid new translation by the prize-winning David Coward.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat Do I Know? offers the modern reader profound insight into a great Renaissance mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 254g\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 205 x 134 x 20 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781782278818\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michel de Montaigne","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":44614398804218,"sku":"9781782278818","price":10.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/1696611072287_book.jpg?v=1696767340","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/what-do-i-know-essential-essays-9781782278818","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}