On Solitude the First Systematic Exploration of

the First Systematic Exploration of This Topic

Ensure That Your Vehicle is Not a Coffin on Wheels

but Has Never Quite Been Able to Come to Terms With the White Man's Place in Africa

Many Assumed He Was an Over-Zealous Gp Who Went Too Far in Providing Comfort to Dying Patients

On Solitude the First Systematic Exploration ofBlending Intellectual Speculation With Anecdote and Personal Reflection, the Renaissance Thinker and Writer Montaigne Pioneered the Modern Essay. This Selection Contains His Idiosyncratic and Timeless Writings on Subjects As Varied As the Virtues of Solitude, the Power of the Imagination, the Pleasures of Reading, the Importance of Sleep and Why We Sometimes Laugh and Cry at the Same Things. Throughout History, Some Books Have Changed the World. They