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How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer
by Sarah Bakewell
Chatto & Windus, 2010, 387 pp., $26.88
by Sarah Bakewell
Chatto & Windus, 2010, 387 pp., $26.88
Can a retired 16th-century French provincial magistrate teach us how to live today? Sarah Bakewell’s engaging and idiosyncratic biography of the great essayist Michel de Montaigne suggests that the answer, in some quite subtle and interesting ways, is that he can. To judge by the enthusiastic reviews and healthy sales for Bakewell’s book since it was published in Britain early last year and this past October in the United States, many critics and readers would seem to agree
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