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Essays selected from The Complete Essays first published by Allen Lane The Penguin Press 1991 This translation copyright © M. A. Screech 1987, 1991, 2003 All rights reserved Introduction copyright © 2016 by Tim Parks

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Frontispiece: Michel de Montaigne, copyright Georgios Kollidas

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