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Title: The Complete Works by Michel Montaigne ISBN: 1-4000-4021-3 Publisher: Unknown Publisher - Being Researched Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Complete -- at last!
Comment: Donald Frame's translations of Montaigne's essays have long been considered one of the two finest contemporary translations available, M.A. Screech's excellent version being the other.
The essays speak for themselves, or at least should. Their popularity is well known and well deserved, and there are a number of fine essay collections available. What's great about this edition is that included with the classic essays are a few extant letters and Montaigne's travel journals, which were lost until almost two hundred years after his death. These additional pieces are not going to rival the essays in popularity -- the letters are few and formal, for instance -- but if you enjoy the mind of Montaigne you'll enjoy these extra inclusions.
Between June of 1580 and December of 1581, Montaigne -- with four other nobles and a variety of servants -- traveled through France, Germany, Switzerland and Italy before returning to Bordeaux. In the journals you'll find more evidence of the author's deeply interested view of the world around him, set out in that seemingly (and charmingly) haphazard, humane style found in spades in the essays.
In one entry, for instance, you'll find him retelling (with a straight face?) a local story he has heard of a young girl who jumped up and down so strenuously during play that she turned into a boy (Montaigne claims that at least a few locals back up this tale); in other entries you'll find him more down to earth, describing, for instance, the little stoves in the homes of Germany, or the tiles that lined some of the homes in what is now Switzerland, or the murals on the walls of Jeanne D'Arc's father's home.
By 1581, when Montaigne visited Rome, the treasures of the Vatican had become a mandatory stop on any well-informed traveller's itinerary. To his delight, Montaigne was shown ancient Roman and ancient Chinese manuscripts, the love letters of Henry VIII, and the classics of history and philosophy. Then, as now, the Vatican Library was one of the greatest in the Western world.
This journal is an interesting view of 16th-century Europe (the architecture, the topography, the manners and customs) through a master stylist's eyes. It's nice to have back in print an edition of Montaigne's complete works, especially since it uses Donald Frame's translations.
Rating: 5
Summary: A wonderful, complete collection
Comment: The late Donald Frame's translation is, as Harold Bloom credits, superb. Add to it the quality and aesthetics of the Everyman's series and this is an unbeatable edition of Montaigne's works. I plan to buy several copies of this edition as gifts.
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Title: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, Edith Grossman, Harold Bloom ISBN: 0060188707 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Essays by George Orwell ISBN: 0375415033 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Adolescent by LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY, RICHARD PEVEAR, FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY ISBN: 140004118X Publisher: Unknown Publisher - Being Researched Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: The Anatomy of Melancholy (New York Review Books Classics) by Robert Burton, William H. Gass, Holbrook Jackson ISBN: 0940322668 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 09 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Don Quixote de La Mancha by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, Samuel Putnam ISBN: 0679602860 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 28 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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