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The complete Essays / Michel de Montaigne ; translated and edited with an introduction and notes by M.A. Screech.

by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592, author.

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London, England ; New York, N.Y., USA : Penguin Books, 2003.

Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592 -- Translations into English.

9780140446043 (paperback)

0140446044 (paperback)

Penguin classics.

lxii, 1283 pages ; 20 cm

The Complete Essays -- Introduction -- Note on the Text -- The Annotations -- Note on the Translation Explanation of the Symbols -- Appendices -- To the Reader -- Book I 1. We reach the same end by discrepant means -- 2. On sadness -- 3. Our emotions get carried away beyond us 4. How the soul discharges its emotions against false objects when lacking real ones -- 5. Whether the governor of a besieged fortress should go out and parley 6. The hour of parleying is dangerous 7. That our deeds are judged by the intention -- 8. On idleness -- 9. On liars -- 10. On a ready or hesitant delivery 11. On prognostications -- 12. On constancy -- 13. Ceremonial at the meeting of kings -- 14. That the taste of good and evil things depends in large part on the opinion we have of them 15. One is punished for stubbornly defending a fort without good reason 16. On punishing cowardice -- 17. The doings of certain ambassadors -- 18. On fear -- 19. That we should not be deemed happy till after our death 20. To philosophize is to learn how to die 21. On the power of the imagination -- 22. One man's profit is another man's loss 23. On habit: and on never easily changing a traditional law -- 24. Same design: differing outcomes -- 25. On schoolmasters' learning -- 26. On educating children -- 27. That it is madness to judge the true and the false from our own capacities 28. On affectionate relationships 29. Nine and twenty sonnets of Estienne de La Boëtie -- 30. On moderation -- 31. On the Cannibals -- 32. Judgements on God's ordinances must be embarked upon with prudence -- 33. On fleeing from pleasures at the cost of one's life -- 34. Fortune is often found in Reason's train -- 35. Something lacking in our civil administrations 36. On the custom of wearing clothing -- 37. On Cato the Younger -- 38. How we weep and laugh at the same thing -- 39. On solitude -- 40. Reflections upon Cicero -- 41. On not sharing one's fame 42. On the inequality there is between us 43. On sumptuary laws 44. On sleep 45. On the Battle of Dreux -- 46. On names -- 47. On the uncertainty of our judgement -- 48. On war-horses -- 49. On ancient customs -- 50. On Democritus and Heraclitus -- 51. On the vanity of words -- 52. On the frugality of the Ancients 53. On one of Caesar's sayings -- 54. On vain cunning devices 55. On smells -- 56. On prayer -- 57. On the length of life -- Book II 1. On the inconstancy of our actions 2. On drunkenness 3. A custom of the Isle of Cea 4. "Work can wait till tomorrow" -- 5. On conscience -- 6. On practice -- 7. On rewards for honour -- 8. On the affection of fathers for their children 9. On the armour of the Parthians -- 10. On books -- 11. On cruelty -- 12. An apology for Raymond Sebond 13. On judging someone else's death -- 14. How our mind tangles itself up -- 15. That difficulty increases desire -- 16. On glory -- 17. On presumption 18. On giving the lie 19. On freedom of conscience 20. We can savour nothing pure 21. Against indolence 22. On riding "in post" -- 23. On bad means to a good end -- 24. On the greatness of Rome 25. On not pretending to be ill -- 26. On thumbs -- 27. On cowardice, the mother of cruelty 28. There is a season for everything -- 29. On virtue -- 30. On a monster-child -- 31. On anger -- 32. In defence of Seneca and Plutarch -- 33. The tale of Spurina -- 34. Observations on Julius Caesar's methods of waging war -- 35. On three good wives 36. On the most excellent of men 37. On the resemblance of children to their fathers Book III 1. On the useful and the honourable -- 2. On repenting -- 3. On three kinds of social intercourse 4. On diversion 5. On some lines of Virgil -- 6. On coaches 7. On high rank as a disadvantage 8. On the art of conversation 9. On vanity 10. On restraining your will 11. On the lame 12. On physiognomy 13. On experience -- Index.

Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form. In 1572 Montaigne retired to his estates in order to devote himself to leisure, reading and reflection. There he wrote his constantly expanding 'assays', inspired by the ideas he found in books contained in his library and from his own experience. He discusses subjects as diverse as war-horses and cannibals, poetry and politics, sex and religion, love and friendship, ecstasy and experience. But, above all, Montaigne studied himself as a way of drawing out his own inner nature and that of men and women in general.

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