How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

by Sarah Bakewell

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, from the author of Humanly Possible

How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love--such questions arise in most people's lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: How do you live? This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, considered by many to be the first...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1590514831

ISBN13:9781590514832

Release Date:September 2011

Publisher:Other Press (NY)

Length:416 Pages

Weight:0.97 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 5.6" x 8.3"

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Death And Mortality Biography 16th Century Arts & Literature Authors Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History Literary Criticism

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