@article{436066,
      note = {Originally published: London : Chatto & Windus, 2010.},
      author = {Bakewell, Sarah.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/436066},
      title = {How to live, or, a life of Montaigne : one question and  twenty attempts at an answer /},
      publisher = {Other Press,},
      abstract = {How does one live? How does one do the good or honorable  thing, while flourishing and feeling happy? This question  obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Montaigne,  perhaps the first truly modern individual. A nobleman,  public official and wine-grower, he wrote free-roaming  explorations of his thought and experience, unlike anything  written before. He called them "essays," meaning "attempts"  or "tries." Into them, 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, as well as  the appalling events of the religious civil wars raging  around him. The Essays was an instant bestseller and, over  four hundred years later, Montaigne's honesty and charm  still draw readers. This spirited biography relates the  story of his life by way of the questions he posed and the  answers he explored.--From publisher description.},
      recid = {436066},
      pages = {ix, 389 p. :},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2010},
}