Un été avec Montaigne

8 best books like Un été avec Montaigne (Antoine Compagnon): Deaf Republic: Poems, Address Unknown, Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark, Through the Night, Bli hvis du kan. Reis hvis du må., How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius, The Waiter, Quand sort la recluse

Deaf Republic: Poems

Author	Ilya Kaminsky
ISBN	1555978312

Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry
Finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize
Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection

Ilya Kaminsky’s astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?

Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political...

Address Unknown

Author	Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
ISBN	0743412710

A rediscovered classic, originally published in 1938 and now an international bestseller.When it first appeared in Story magazine in 1938, Address Unknown became an immediate social phenomenon and literary sensation. Published in book form a year later and banned in Nazi Germany, it garnered high...

Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark

Author	Cecelia Watson
ISBN	0062917935

A page-turning, existential romp through the life and times of the world’s most polarizing punctuation mark

The semicolon. Stephen King, Hemingway, Vonnegut, and Orwell detest it. Herman Melville, Henry James, and Rebecca Solnit love it. But why? When is it effective? Have we been misusing...

Through the Night

Author	Stig Sæterbakken
ISBN	1564788628

Dentist Karl Meyer s worst nightmare comes true when his son, Ole-Jakob, takes his own life. This tragedy is the springboard for a complex novel posing essential questions about human experience: What does sorrow do to a person? How can one live with the pain of unbearable loss? How far can a man be driven...

Bli hvis du kan. Reis hvis du må.

Author

Helga Flatland

Romanen tar utgangspunkt i tre unge barndomsvenner - Tarjei, Trygve og Kristian - og deres beslutning om å verve seg til de norske styrkene i Afghanistan. Ingen av de tre kommer tilbake. Hvorfor dro de egentlig? Hva med de som er igjen? Hvilke krefter påvirker våre veivalg - bli eller reise?
Romanen...

How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius

Author

Donald J. Robertson

The life-changing principles of Stoicism taught through the story of its most famous proponent.

Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius was the final famous Stoic philosopher of the ancient world. The Meditations, his personal journal, survives to this day as one of the most loved self-help and spiritual...

The Waiter

Author	Matias Faldbakken
ISBN	1501197525

In the tradition of modern classics The Dinner and A Gentleman in Moscow comes The Waiter, in which the finely tuned balance of a grand European restaurant (that has seen better days) is irrevocably upset by an unexpected guest.

In a centuries-old European restaurant called The Hills, a middle-aged...

Quand sort la recluse

Author

Fred Vargas

— Trois morts, c’est exact, dit Danglard. Mais cela regarde les médecins, les épidémiologistes, les zoologues. Nous, en aucun cas. Ce n’est pas de notre compétence.
— Ce qu’il serait bon de vérifier, dit Adamsberg. J’ai donc rendez-vous demain au Muséum d’Histoire naturelle....