How to Live

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<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></p><p>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.</p><p>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>

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Sarah Bakewell had a wandering childhood in Europe, Australia and England. After studying at the University of Essex, she was a curator of early printed books at the Wellcome Library before becoming a full-time writer, publishing her highly acclaimed biographies<i>The Smart</i>and<i>The English Dane</i>. She lives in London, where she teaches creative writing at City University and catalogues rare book collections for the National Trust..<b>www.sarahbakewell.com</b>

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