Complete Essays: Volume 1

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.

Volume 2 is published simultaneously.<>

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.

Product details

• Authors: David Hume, David Womersley, Womersley David
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 29.05.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9780241730874
• ISBN: 978-0-241-73087-4
• No. of pages: 688
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 240 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; European History, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, HISTORY / Essays, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Empiricism, Ethics and moral philosophy, Literary essays, Popular philosophy: Meaning of life / finding sense in life