Translated by James B. Atkinson and David Sices. Introduction and Notes by James B. Atkinson.Contents include a translator"s preface, Introduction, Montaigne"s Selected Essays: BOOK 1—By By Differing Means We Attain the Same End, Idleness, Through Philosophy We Learn How to Die, The Power of the Imagination, The Education of Children, Friendship, The Cannibals, Solitude, Democritus and Heraclitus. BOOK 2—Practice, Cruelty, Being Presumptuous, Correcting, To Every Thing There Is a Season, A Malformed Child. BOOK 3—Repenting, Physiognomy, Experience. Also included are Etienne de La Boetie"s, Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, endnotes and an index.