Any Montaigne is more or less something I'd recommend (aside from his distasteful opinions towards women, he's remarkably timeless), so I'm concerned here mostly with the edition I read: J.M. Cohen's older translation for Penguin Classics, which has been reissued with as Montaigne: Essays. It's maybe a little stuffy, but it's a charming translation, well annotated with lots of notes (mostly to.