Francis Bacon's Essays
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Few works in the English literary canon have endured with such penetrating relevance as Francis Bacon's Essays — a collection of 58 short prose pieces first published in 1597 and expanded through 1625, in which the father of empiricism turns his razor-sharp intellect upon the full breadth of human experience. Bacon chronicles subjects ranging from truth, death, and adversity to gardens, friendship, and the nature of ambition, constructing each essay with a precision and authority that transformed the form itself, establishing the personal essay as a legitimate and powerful mode of intellectual inquiry in the English language. Bacon's prose is celebrated for its aphoristic density — every sentence carrying the weight of carefully distilled observation — and his unflinching pragmatism presents a portrait of Renaissance humanism at its most clear-eyed and unsentimental. This Everyman's Library edition, introduced by Oliphant Smeaton, presents the complete essays in an accessible and authoritative format, making Bacon's timeless wisdom available to a new generation of readers. Whether one approaches these essays as philosophical treatises, political meditations, or literary masterworks, the question Bacon ultimately leaves the reader to wrestle with is as urgent today as it was four centuries ago: what does it truly mean to live wisely?
Author: Francis Bacon
Format: Hardback
Genre: Essays
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Few works in the English literary canon have endured with such penetrating relevance as Francis Bacon's Essays — a collection of 58 short prose pieces first published in 1597 and expanded through 1625, in which the father of empiricism turns his razor-sharp intellect upon the full breadth of human experience. Bacon chronicles subjects ranging from truth, death, and adversity to gardens, friendship, and the nature of ambition, constructing each essay with a precision and authority that transformed the form itself, establishing the personal essay as a legitimate and powerful mode of intellectual inquiry in the English language. Bacon's prose is celebrated for its aphoristic density — every sentence carrying the weight of carefully distilled observation — and his unflinching pragmatism presents a portrait of Renaissance humanism at its most clear-eyed and unsentimental. This Everyman's Library edition, introduced by Oliphant Smeaton, presents the complete essays in an accessible and authoritative format, making Bacon's timeless wisdom available to a new generation of readers. Whether one approaches these essays as philosophical treatises, political meditations, or literary masterworks, the question Bacon ultimately leaves the reader to wrestle with is as urgent today as it was four centuries ago: what does it truly mean to live wisely?