- French essays, Translations into English, Early works to 1800, Fiction, short stories (single author)
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Character-led, contemplative, prestige and spare.
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Montaigne, Michel de
- First published
- 1958
- Pages
- 908
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780804704854
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First sentence
“The commonest way of softening the hearts of those we have offended, when, vengeance in hand, they hold us at their mercy, is by submission to move them to commiseration and pity.”
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