Montaigne Reading Group: 17 Essays

New people always welcome - just make sure you read the correct set of essays, listed below! All of these essays are available to read for free online - see links below.

We're pleased to announce the third meeting of our new Montaigne reading group! You don't need to have attended the first two sessions to come along - just make sure you read the same essays as us, listed below. We are aiming to read all of Montaigne's essays over an extended period. For our third meeting we will read essays 41-57 essays from the Penguin Classics Complete Essays edition, thus finishing off the first volume, totalling just under 100 pages. The essays for this meeting are:

41.) On not sharing one's fame.
42.) On the inequality there is between us.
43.) On sumptuary laws.
44.) On sleep.
45.) On the Battle of Dreux.
46.) On names.
47.) On the uncertainty of our judgement.
48.) On war-horses.
49.) On ancient customs.
50.) On Democritus and Heraclitus.
51.) On the vanity of words.
52.) On the frugality of the Ancients.
53.) On one of Caesar's sayings.
54.) On vain cunning devices.
55.) On smells.
56.) On prayer.
57.) On the length of life.

Feel free to read any translation (or indeed the original French...). The Penguin Classics edition, which I will be reading, is translated by M.A. Screech and is available for free online:

https://archive.org/details/MontaigneEssayscompleteScreech.num/mode/2up

The Kindle edition of the Screech translation is also currently available for 49p... Many other translations are available, including many that can be found for free online.