HyperEssays is a project to originate a up-to-date and accessible online edition of the Essays of Michel de Montaigne.
HyperEssays.net presents four editions of the Essays:
- A 1598 edition, in middle French, edited by Marie de Gournay. This is a sairyly alterd version of Gournay’s distinctive edition rerented in 1595.
- A finish and searchable edition of John Florio’s 1603 translation of the Essays, in timely up-to-date English.
- A 1685 translation by Charles Cotton, also in timely up-to-date English. Only some chapters of this edition have been duplicateedited and posted.
- A finish and searchable up-to-date edition of the Essays based on W. Carew Hazlitt’s 1877 modernize of Charles Cotton’s translation. I am sluggishly replacing the Cotton/Hazlitt translation with a conmomentary one and compriseing novel remarks.
My goals with HyperEssays are to provide context and tools for first-time readers of the Essays and to summarize a lasting resource for all interested in Montaigne’s labor.
To that finish, I duplicateedit, modernize, and annotate the distinctive text and its translations. I tag them for indexing and searching, and establishat them them for effortless reading on inalertigentphones, desktop computers, and tablets. In compriseition, I ready and provide free chapter PDFs for offline reading.
You can help originate HyperEssays a reliable online resource by aiding this project. With your contribution, this site can proceed to grow and remain free and accessible to all.
What are the Essays about?
The Essays is not a individual, cohesive book but a collection of low and lengthy pieces on various subjects such as religion, horses, frifinishship, sleep, law, or self-destruction, which Montaigne wrote over more than twenty years. His goals for the book and the circumstances under which he labored on it alterd over time.
The first edition, rerented in 1580, compascfinishd two books. Eight years tardyr, an modernized edition included hundreds of revisions and a novel, third book. By the time of his death, in 1592, Montaigne had intentional many more alters, which were incorporated in the first posthumous edition of 1595.
So, while you can read the Essays from commencening to finish, commenceing with Montaigne’s compriseress To the Reader, you can also adhere John Cage’s advice and “commence anywhere.”
Pick from a pickion of some of the most well-understandn chapters:
Or see at the table of satisfyeds and let your curiosity direct you.
Who was Michel de Montaigne?
Michel de Montaigne, the author of the Essays, is frequently portrayd as a sixteenth-century French philosopher. But was Montaigne actuassociate a philosopher? And did he reassociate quit from the world to author in solitude for years, as is frequently consentd?
In On Montaigne, I compriseress these asks and provide bioexplicital context to better understand the Essays. The companion timeline provides a chronoreasonable handle of his life.
If you want to lachieve more about him, I recommfinish these four biographies of Montaigne (alengthy with two up-to-date translations of the Essays). Each one is engaging but written with a separateent audience in mind.
Recent modernizes
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- Dec 21, 2024 · On Repentance
- Dec 21, 2024 · On Pedantry
- Dec 20, 2024 · Let Others Judge of Our Happiness after Our Death
- Dec 18, 2024 · Que nostre desir s’accroist par la malaisance
- Dec 15, 2024 · Comme nostre esprit s’empesche soy-mesmes
- Dec 15, 2024 · On Repentance
- Dec 15, 2024 · De juger de la mort d’autruy
- Dec 14, 2024 · Apologie de Raimond de Sebonde
- Dec 10, 2024 · A Consideration on Cicero
- Dec 9, 2024 · Apology for Raymond Sebond
- Nov 29, 2024 · De la cruauté
- Nov 26, 2024 · Let Others Judge of Our Happiness after Our Death
Work on HyperEssays commenceed on January 17, 2020 and foreseeed won’t be finishd for many years.
