How to Live
A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer
- Published: 1 March 2011
- ISBN: 9781446450901
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 400
Sarah Bakewell has written a marvellously confident and clear introduction to Montaigne...a rare achievement. Sarah Bakewell deserves congratulations for opening Montaigne to new readers so very appealingly
Evening Standard
How to live is a superb, spirited introduction to the master, and should have its readers rushing straight to the essays themselves
Adam Thorpe, Guardian
Bakewell writes with verve. This is an intellectually lively treatment of a Renaissance giant and his world
Daily Telegraph
With this splendidly conceived and exquisitely written double biography - of both Montaigne the man and Montaigne the book - Sarah Bakewell should persuade another generation to fall in love with Montaigne
Sunday Times
Illuminating and humane book... It's rare to come across a biographer who remains so deliciously fond of her subject... How to Live will delight and illuminate
Independent