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Complete Essays: Volume 1

By David Hume and David Womersley
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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... Read More
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Complete Essays: Volume 1

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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.

David Womersley has spent a lifetime studying the literature of the eighteenth century. This definitive new two-volume edition of the essays follows Hume's 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.

Complete Essays: Volume 2 is published simultaneously.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241730874

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 30 October 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 40.0mm

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 240.0mm

Weight: 750g

Pages: 688

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Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir David Hume David Womersley European History History & Military Non-Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Classics Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism Pre-orders Pre-orders by Release Date

About the Author

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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