Saturday, December 15, 2018

Montaigne Essays for January meeting

Following are the titles we will be reading for January 17, 2019 from the essays of Michel De Montaigne."

On Sadness (aka "On Sorrow")

On Fear

On Smells

On Books

On Experience

These are listed in chronological order. David notes that "On Experience" is the longest essay Montaigne wrote, but also the last one, and is worth the time.

The library has editions of Montaigne available, or you can read them free online:

 Project Gutenberg

Amazon Kindle edition  Volume 1  and  Volume 2  

If you are a resident Kalamazoo Public Library card-holder, you can choose from several different editions on "Hoopla"