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*Starred Review* In a wide-ranging intellectual career, Michel de Montaigne found no knowledge so tough to acquire because the knowledge of how to live this life well. By casting her biography of the writer as 20 chapters, each centered on an alternative answer to the question How to live? Bakewell limns Montaigne’s ceaseless pursuit of the most elusive knowledge. Embedded in the 20 life-knowledge responses, readers will find essential facts—when and where Montaigne was born, how and whom he married, how he became mayor of Bordeaux, how he managed a public life in a duration of lethal religious and political passions. But Bakewell keeps the main objective on the inner evolution in the acute mind informing Montaigne’s charmingly digressive and tolerantly skeptical essays. Flexible and curious, this was obviously a mind in your own personal home contemplating the morality of cannibals, the concise explaination their own near-death experience, and the puzzlingly human behavior of animals. And though Montaigne has identified his very own personality as his overarching topic, Bakewell marvels with the way Montaigne’s prose has enchanted diverse readers—Hazlitt and Sterne, Woolf and Gide—with their unique reflections. Because Montaigne’s capacious mirror still captivates many, this insightful life study will win high praise from both scholars and general readers. --Bryce Christensen

“This charming biography shuffles incidents from Montaigne’s life and essays into twenty thematic chapters…Bakewell clearly relishes the anthropological anecdotes that enliven Montaigne’s work, but she handles as well both his philosophical influences as well as the readers and interpreters who have guided the reception with the essays.” —The New Yorker

“Serious, engaging, and thus infectiously deeply for each other with its subject which i found myself racing to end so I really could start rereading the Essays themselves…It is hard to imagine an improved introduction—or reintroduction—to Montaigne than Bakewell’s book.” —Lorin Stein, Harper’s Magazine

“Ms. Bakewell’s new book, How to Live, can be a biography, but within the form of the delightful conversation over the centuries.” —The The big apple Times

“So artful is Bakewell’s account of [Montaigne] that even skeptical readers may well arrive at share her admiration.” —New York Times Book Review
 
“Extraordinary…a miracle of complex, revelatory organization, as Bakewell moves along she supplies a brilliant demonstration of the alchemy of historical viewpoint.” —Boston Globe

“Well, How to Live is really a superb book, original, engaging, thorough, ambitious, and wise.” —Nick Hornby, in the November/December 2010 issue of The Believer

“In How to Live, an affectionate introduction towards the author, Bakewell argues that, far from being a dusty old philosopher, Montaigne hasn't been more relevant—a 16th-century blogger, as she would have it—and so must be read, quite simply, ‘in order to live’…Bakewell is a wry and intelligent guide.” —The Daily Beast

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