By: Sarah Bakewell
By: Sarah Bakewell
how to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love--such questions arise in most people's lives. they are all versions of a bigger question: how do you live? how do you do the good or honourable thing, while flourishing and feeling happy? this question obsessed renaissance writers, none more than michel eyquem de montaigne (1533-92), perhaps the...
Buy on Amazon“I like Sarah Bakewell's book How to Live. It's like a series of essays about Montaigne, who invented the essay. ”
May 6, 2014 — Source