A review by wilsonthomasjoseph
How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell

4.0

This is the type of book that brings one closer to humanizing the very old past. It’s pleasing to know that someone was so enlightened and revered so far back in time, but it’s not pleasing that though his work has lasted so long, we are still trudging along and making the same mistakes. I guess it is silly to think that one open-minded thinker should change the mindset of so many when one considers the readers and heeders of other revolutionary texts of the world. But, I will judge this for myself when I start reading The Complete Essays for myself.