The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Complete
Jean-Jacques Rousseau · English
The Confessions is Jean-Jacques Rousseau's autobiography, written between 1765 and 1770 and published after his death, the first six books in 1782 and the rest in 1789.
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The Confessions is Jean-Jacques Rousseau's autobiography, written between 1765 and 1770 and published after his death, the first six books in 1782 and the rest in 1789. This complete English version contains all twelve books, with an introduction. Rousseau recounts his childhood in Geneva, his years of wandering, his life with Madame de Warens, his arrival in Paris and literary fame, his life with Therese Levasseur, and the quarrels and persecutions that followed the condemnation of Emile in 1762, ending with his expulsion from the island of Saint-Pierre in 1765. He presents himself with unusual frankness, faults included.
The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Complete
Jean-Jacques Rousseau · English
The Confessions is Jean-Jacques Rousseau's autobiography, written between 1765 and 1770 and published after his death, the first six books in 1782 and the rest in 1789.
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|Among the notable books of later times--we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudalism were rallying for their last struggle against the modern spirit, chiefly represented by Voltaire, the Encyclopedists, and Rousseau himself--a struggle to which, after many fierce intestine quarrels and sanguinary wars throughout Europe and America, ha
Pagera Editor's Note
The Confessions is Jean-Jacques Rousseau's autobiography, written between 1765 and 1770 and published after his death, the first six books in 1782 and the rest in 1789. This complete English version contains all twelve books, with an introduction. Rousseau recounts his childhood in Geneva, his years of wandering, his life with Madame de Warens, his arrival in Paris and literary fame, his life with Therese Levasseur, and the quarrels and persecutions that followed the condemnation of Emile in 1762, ending with his expulsion from the island of Saint-Pierre in 1765. He presents himself with unusual frankness, faults included.
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