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I haven’t read such a good biography for a long time, and I’m sure anyone will enjoy this. Sarah Bakewell had a wandering childhood in Europe, Australia and England. After studying at the University of Essex, she was a curator of early printed books at the Wellcome Library before becoming a full-time writer, publishing her highly acclaimed biographies The Smart and The English Dane. Sarah Bakewell, who’s particularly good at situating Montaigne in his period and place, offers a clear summary of the religious strife that raged during his life, including the infamous Massacre Biographer Sarah Bakewell talks about her new book on the life and work of 16th century French nobleman Michel de Montaigne.
Here I turn to Sarah Bakewell's excellent book, How to Live: or A Life Mar 17, 2020 In her book How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (2010), Sarah Bakewell acknowledges the Oct 2, 2017 Most of Montaigne's thought consists of a series of realizations that life is not as simple as he has just made it out to be. The event benefited him in May 5, 2018 Bakewell, Sarah (2010).
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How to get on well with people, how to deal with Author: Sarah Bakewell Bakewell has put together an outstanding biography. She blends together Montaigne`s esaays, with the events that took place in his life. France is undergoing, the Mar 11, 2011 But the sweetest part of the retreat, for him, was his library, vast for its time, of about 1,000 books.
Feb 27, 2011 “This is not the same as the ethical question, 'How should one live?'” notes Sarah Bakewell. “Moral dilemmas interested Montaigne, but he was
How to Live: Or, a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer: Bakewell, Sarah: Amazon.sg: Books Bakewell, Sarah. How to live, or, A life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer / Sarah Bakewell. - Other Press ed. p. cm. Originally published: London : Chatto & Windus, 2010. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Sarah Bakewell is a genius. In this book she gives us a moving biography of Montaigne, a history of the genesis and contents of his marvelous essays, an
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I read it in just over a few days, finding it hard to put the book down. I learned a great deal about Montaigne, whose name, before reading this biography, was only a passing reference I’d come across in Bertrand Russell’s History of Western Philosophy. How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer: Bakewell, Sarah: 9780099485155: Books - Amazon.ca. CDN$ 22.99.
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“As described by Sarah Bakewell in her suavely enlightening How to Live, or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer Montaigne is, with Walt Whitman, among the most congenial of literary giants, inclined to shrug over the inevitability of human failings and the last man to accuse anyone of self-absorption.
Author:Bakewell, Sarah. We appreciate the impact a good book can have. We all like the idea of saving a bit of cash, so when we found out how many good quality used books are out there - we just had to let you know! Sarah Bakewell deserves congratulations for opening Montaigne to new readers so very appealingly * Evening Standard * How to live is a superb, spirited introduction to the master, and should have its readers rushing straight to the essays themselves -- Adam Thorpe * Guardian * With this splendidly conceived and exquisitely written double biography - of both Montaigne the man and Montaigne the Sarah Bakewell does us a great service by doing a hell of a lot reading; the various authors who read Montaigne and how doing so influenced their work and life and times.
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Sarah Bakewell, who’s particularly good at situating Montaigne in his period and place, offers a clear summary of the religious strife that raged during his life, including the infamous Massacre
ISBN-10: 1590514831 Despite its tacky title, How to Live, or, A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer is not one of those popular middlebrow manuals that Sarah Bakewell was a curator of early printed books at the Wellcome Library before becoming a full-time writer, publishing her highly acclaimed biographies The Smart and The English Dane. She lives in London, where she teaches creative writing at City University and catalogues rare book collections for the National Trust. Bakewell, Sarah. How to live, or, A life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer / Sarah Bakewell. - Other Press ed.