With these daily videos and managing the cost of books in my shopping basket is like trying to weigh an army of frogs!

Montaigne is very rewarding to read. Feels like you're talking with a person from this era.

My intro to Montaigne was the Penguin Classics "selected essays" - and became a fan. I have now read the complete Screech and the French original. The Florio edition I have only read in a reflected volume - and is definitely worth knowing as Shakespeare definitely used it.

Montaigne might be my single favorite nonfiction writer. Do you know if the quote “If what we cannot see does not exist then our knowledge is marvelously diminished” is a paraphrase from Cicero? I always loved that one. Great point on Sebond, that would be a fascinating work. I like to use the phrase “spiritual humanist” as my descriptor, probably why I love the Essays so much.

I have been waiting for you to get to Montaigne! I just Love this Grand paperback.

Thank you for this primer! I bought the complete essays recently (partly because I enjoy essays, partly because I wanted to help out an indie bookshop and it was the most expensive book on my wish list). I’ve been thinking about reading one a day as a lockdown project from Monday so this came at the perfect time.

I love Montaigne! Here in Finland we had all of Montaigne's essays published in 3 volumes (out of print now of course, our reprinting culture is abysmal). In uni, we had to read small chunks of them for the Medieval/Renaissance lit course, but I couldn't stop, I had to read all of them. Huge influence, not just on me, but on many others, including Shakespeare (most notably in Tempest, for example Prospero's book of nature). I think, when reading Montaigne, people ought to forget their current definition of essay with all its formal structure and all that, and go closer to the word's etymological roots. Here is a man not writing an essay, but a man essaying to write his thoughts. But what do I know?

Thank u for this video

This was a very good review👍! I am reading this book now a days and so far I really enjoyed it and the way you do these reviews with this jolly demeanor of yours is incredible, please try to review some translations of Urdu poets like Mirza Ghalib , Mir Taqi Mir ..thank you regards from Kashmir 😊

Just reading the Penguin - J.M Cohen translation of Montaigne, Essays. How does this translation compare with Screech's work? I think the Cohen work is from 1958 reprinted 1993.

Wonder whether to get the Penguin version of the complete essays or the Everyman's Complete Works... Does anyone prefer one over the other?

2:26 Doesn't Screech's Complete Essays of Montaigne include An Apology for Raymond Sebond in full?

Wondering your opinion of The “ Frame “ Translation Of Montaigne’s Complete Works In One Volume ?

Steve I urge you to make videos on Latin! What better reason than to enable people to read Sabunde's Natural Theology?

What about the Cotton translation? Worth it?

Any thoughts on the Donald Frame translation of The Complete Essays?

There is no English translation of the Sebond, correct?