A superb new edition of the essays of one of the greatest prose writers in EnglishDavid Hume reshaped, redirected, and reenergised the English essay. His sceptical, rational, selfquestioning persona created what amounted to a new intellectual arena, in which it was possible to think afresh about the world and the self. When he famously wrote that the life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster, something had changed. David Womersley has spent a lifetime studying the literature of the eighteenth century. This definitive new twovolume edition of the essays follows Humes division of his essays into two parts, and allows the modern reader to enjoy this extraordinary writer in all his moods, from benign optimism to gloomy foreboding. The editorial apparatus supplies indispensable intellectual and bibliographical context for these rewarding, humane, and yet also subtly provocative writings. Volume 1 is published simultaneously.

Binding: Hardcover;608 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: DNF; Weight: 870 g; Dimensions: 240 x 156 x 40

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