What Do I Know?

A fresh new translation of Michel de Montaigne’s most profound, searching essays, with an introduction from Yiyun Li, author of The Book of Goose This gift-worthy collection of 16 essays by “the father of the essay” is a short, accessible introduction to his work, offering a fascinating glimpse inside a great Renaissance mind “I myself am the subject of my book.” So wrote Montaigne in the introductory note to his Essays , the book that marked the birth of the modern essay form. In works of probi