Book · 1580 · Nonfiction

Essays

Name: Essays
Author: Michel de Montaigne

Penguin Books (Penguin Random House) · 1283 pages

★ 9.3 editorial score

Montaigne wrote short pieces on friendship, fear, sleep, and his kidney stones, and invented the essay doing it. As company on the page he remains unmatched in four centuries.

Genre

Philosophy

Medium

Essays

Subject

The individual Human nature Ethics

Setting

France

Time

1580Depicts The Renaissance

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