The Complete Essays of Montaigne (Audiobook) by Michel.
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THE COMPLETE WORKS OF MONTAIGNE: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters by Frame, Donald M. (translator) COVID-19 Update May 12, 2020: Biblio is open and shipping orders.
With two printed versions of Montaigne’s essays (translations by Donald Frame and M. A. Screech) and a couple of online editions available to me, I thought I might offer some examples of how individual translations have captured Montaigne’s writing and let you judge which you think is clearer and crisper for reading today. I chose, somewhat at random, some lines from Book 1, Essay 50: Of.
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Montaigne called “On Vanity” one of those essays which, being quite long and not at all confined by the titles he gave them, “require a decision to read them and time set aside.” It is a.
It's an old translation - late 17th century - and it shows. I have the impression that this is not as good a translation as the French one, as a reflection of the sense of the original. Also the layout is poor - apparently unchanged from the original printing, almost entirely without paragraph spacing or even new lines in many cases. Also, the links do not seem to work, which makes navigation.