How to Live

<p><b>How to get on well with people how to deal with violence how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live? </b><br><br>This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92) who wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience unlike anything written before. Into these essays he put whatever was in his head: his tastes in wine and food his childhood memories the way his dog's ears twitched when it was dreaming events in the appalling civil wars raging around him. <i>The Essays</i> was an instant bestseller and over four hundred years later readers still come to him in search of companionship wisdom and entertainment - and in search of themselves. <br><br>This first full biography of Montaigne in English for nearly fifty years relates the story of his life by way of the questions he posed and the answers he explored.</p> With this <b>splendidly conceived and exquisitely written</b> double biography - of both Montaigne the man and Montaigne the book - Sarah Bakewell should persuade another generation to fall in love with Montaigne How to live is a<b> superb</b> spirited introduction to the master and should have its readers rushing straight to the essays themselves Sarah Bakewell has written a <b>marvellously confident and clear</b> introduction to Montaigne...<b>a rare achievement.</b> Sarah Bakewell deserves congratulations for opening Montaigne to new readers so very appealingly Illuminating and humane book... It's rare to come across a biographer who remains so deliciously fond of her subject... <i>How to Live</i> will delight and illuminate Bakewell writes with verve. This is an intellectually lively treatment of a Renaissance giant and his world <p><b>How to get on well with people how to deal with violence how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live? </b><br><br>This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92) who wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience unlike anything written before. Into these essays he put whatever was in his head: his tastes in wine and food his childhood memories the way his dog's ears twitched when it was dreaming events in the appalling civil wars raging around him. <i>The Essays</i> was an instant bestseller and over four hundred years later readers still come to him in search of companionship wisdom and entertainment - and in search of themselves. <br><br>This first full biography of Montaigne in English for nearly fifty years relates the story of his life by way of the questions he posed and the answers he explored.</p>