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Describing his collection of Essays as ‘a book consubstantial with its author’ Montaigne identified both the power and the charm of a work which introduces us to one of the most attractive figures in European literature. A humanist a sceptic an acute observer of himself and others he reflects the great themes of existence through the prism of his own self-consciousness. Apparent in every line he wrote his virtues of tolerance moderation and disinterested inquiry amount to an undeclared manifesto...See More