# Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete

By Michel de Montaigne.

"Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete" by Michel de Montaigne is a collection of essays written between approximately 1570 and 1592. Montaigne set out to record his own character and humors with complete frankness, creating a new literary form he called "attempts" or "tests." The essays range from profound topics like conscience and sadness to trivial subjects like smells, examining human nature through skeptical inquiry. Writing during France's religious wars, Montaigne questioned certainty itself, asking "What do I know?" while freely associating ideas and drawing on classical sources. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Editor: William Carew Hazlitt
- Translator: Charles Cotton
- Subjects: French essays -- Translations into English

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## Audiobooks of it

- [Essays book 1](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/5147) by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (17 h 5 min, English)
- [Essays book 3](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/7129) by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (20 h 31 min, English)
- [Essays book 2](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/6844) by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (27 h 41 min, English)

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