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How to Live: A Life of Montaigne
Sarah Bakewell, 2010
National Book Critics Circle Award, biography.
Montaigne's life and ideas in twenty short answers. The best way into him.
Talk about it
- Which of the twenty answers to "how to live" would you keep, and which would you drop?
- Did the book make you want to read Montaigne himself? Why or why not?
- What is the value of thinking out loud, as Montaigne did, instead of arguing to win?
Questions we wrote from what the book covers. They don’t give away the plot. How we pick. For more, try our questions for any book.