Essays, Book 2: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Essays, Book 2, credited to Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Essays, Book 2, by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne. Read by LibriVox volunteers. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary genre. He is also known as the father of Modern Skepticism. His pieces became famous for his apparent effortless ability to merge serious intellectual speculation with casual anecdotes and autobiography. His main work, Essais (translated literally as "Attempts" but traditionally as "Essays"), contains some of the still most widely influential essays ever written. This is the second volume of that important work. (Summary adapted from the Wikipedia by Leni) The first book can be found at http://librivox.org/essays-book-1-by-michel-eyquem-de-montaigne/

Recording facts

• Recording title: Essays, Book 2
• Author credits: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 51
• Listed recording duration: 27:40:38

Catalogue topics

• non-fiction
• essays
• renaissance
• montaigne
• charles cotton

Opening tracks: first 24 of 51

1. 01 - OF THE INCONSTANCY OF OUR ACTIONS — 25:10
2. 02 - OF DRUNKENNESS — 34:16
3. 03 - A CUSTOM OF THE ISLE OF CEA — 50:11
4. 04 - TO-MORROW'S A NEW DAY — 8:13
5. 05 - OF CONSCIENCE — 13:54
6. 06 - USE MAKES PERFECT — 38:48
7. 07 - OF RECOMPENSES OF HONOUR — 13:05
8. 08 - OF THE AFFECTION OF FATHERS TO THEIR CHILDREN, part 1 — 36:30
9. 09 - OF THE AFFECTION OF FATHERS TO THEIR CHILDREN, part 2 — 32:16
10. 10 - OF THE ARMS OF THE PARTHIANS — 10:50
11. 11 - OF BOOKS — 47:21
12. 12 - OF CRUELTY — 57:05
13. 13 - OF JUDGING OF THE DEATH OF ANOTHER — 23:10
14. 14 - THAT OUR MIND HINDERS ITSELF — 2:57
15. 15 - THAT OUR DESIRES ARE AUGMENTED BY DIFFICULTY — 21:54
16. 16 - OF GLORY — 50:52
17. 17 - OF PRESUMPTION, part 1 — 38:47
18. 18 - OF PRESUMPTION, part 2 — 38:19
19. 19 - OF PRESUMPTION, part 3 — 42:18
20. 20 - OF GIVING THE LIE — 15:24
21. 21 - OF LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE — 13:42
22. 22 - THAT WE TASTE NOTHING PURE — 12:21
23. 23 - AGAINST IDLENESS — 14:30
24. 24 - OF POSTING — 3:39

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