What Do I Know?

This is a new book. Condition: Brand New.

A selection of Michel de Montaigne's most profound, searching essays, in a new translation and stunning hardback edition featuring an introduction by Yiyun Li

'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 probing intelligence and idiosyncratic observation, Montaigne moved from intimate personal reflection to roving theories of the conduct of kings and cannibals, the effects of sorrow and fear, and the fallibility of human memory and judgement.

This new selection of Montaigne's most ingenious essays appears in a lucid new translation by the prize-winning David Coward. What Do I Know? offers the modern reader profound insight into a great Renaissance mind.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781782278832
Published: October 2025

Number of pages: 192
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: not specified

Publisher: Pushkin Press