Great Ideas on Solitude

by Michel de Montaigne

Blending intellectual speculation with anecdote and personal reflection, the Renaissance thinker and writer Montaigne pioneered the modern essay. This selection contains his idiosyncratic and timeless writings on subjects as varied as the virtues of solitude, the power of the imagination, the pleasures of reading, the importance of sleep and why we sometimes laugh and cry at the same things.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0141043857
• ISBN13: 9780141043852
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Penguin UK
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.5" x 7.1"