Complete Essays: Volume 1
$72.16
- Hardcover
448 pages
- Release Date
25 August 2026
Summary
A superb new edition of the essays of one of the greatest and most enjoyable prose writers in English
David Hume reshaped, redirected, and re-energised the English essay. His sceptical, rational, self-questioning 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.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241730874 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241730872 |
| Author: | David Hume, David Womersley |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 25 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 784g |
| Dimensions: | 242mm x 163mm x 38mm |
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About The Author
David Hume
David Hume (1711-1776)
Born in Edinburgh, David Hume devoted himself to philosophy and literature from an early age. In 1739-40, he published his now highly regarded work, A Treatise of Human Nature. He worked as a tutor, judge advocate, librarian, diplomat, and senior civil servant, as well as writing further works such as Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and a six-volume History of England.
David Womersley
David Womersley is the Thomas Warton Professor of Literature at the University of Oxford. Among his interests are Jonathan Swift (he was the general editor of the CUP edition of Swift), Daniel Defoe, and Edward Gibbon, whose Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire he edited for Penguin Classics.
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