Montaigne's Essays and Selected Writings A Bilingual Edition

by Frame, Donald M.

• ISBN13: 9780312546359
• ISBN10: 0312546351
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1969-10-15
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

These classic translations of Montaigne are presented with the authoritative French text on facing pages and provide an introduction and extensive notes helping students appreciate the depth and clarity of Montaigne's thinking. The text includes Books 1, 2, and 3 of the essays; Montaigne's translation of the natural theology of Raymond Sebond; a travel journal; and selected letters.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION	v	(14)
NOTE ON THE TEXT	xix	(4)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY	xxiii
ESSAYS To the Reader	3	(2)
BOOK ONE	5	(138)
8 Of Idleness	5	(4)
20 That to Philosophize Is to Learn to Die (XXX)	9	(8)
26 Of the Education of Children (XXX)	17	(62)
31 Of Cannibals	79	(40)
39 Of Solitude (XXX)	119	(12)
50 Of Democritus and Heraclitus	131	(12)
BOOK TWO	143	(170)
1 Of the Inconsistency of Our Actions	143	(20)
6 Of Practice	163	(36)
12 Apology for Raymond Sebond (XXX)	199	(56)
17 Of Presumption (XXX)	255	(20)
18 Of Giving the Life	275	(14)
37 Of the Resemblance of Children to Fathers (XXX)	289	(24)
BOOK THREE	313	(152)
2 Of Repentance	313	(42)
9 Of Vanity (XXX)	355	(24)
10 Of Husbanding Your Will (XXX)	379	(16)
12 Of Physiognomy (XXX)	395	(12)
13 Of Experience (XXX)	407	(58)
SELECTED WRITINGS	465	(29)
Translation of the Natural Theology of Raymond Sebond (XXX)	465	(4)
Latin Inscription Commemorating Montaigne's Retirement	469	(2)
Travel Journal (XXX)	471	(10)
Letters To His Father: On the Death of La Boetie (XXX)	481	(4)
To King Henry IV	485	(6)
To King Henry IV	491	(3)
GLOSSARY	494