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The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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  • Book language: English
  • 621 pages

The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is an autobiographical work in which the author recounts his life and innermost thoughts with unusual candour. It offers a vivid portrait of eighteenth-century Europe and the intellectual currents that shaped it. Listening to it provides insight into a foundational text of modern self-writing.

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THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN
JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Complete
By Jean Jacques Rousseau
(In 12 books)
Privately Printed for the Members of the Aldus
Society
London, 1903
Original
titlepage
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frontispiece

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CONTENTS
BOOK I.
INTRODUCTION.
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,

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Contents

  1. THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
  2. Complete
  3. Privately Printed for the Members of the Aldus Society
  4. BOOK I.
  5. INTRODUCTION.
  6. BOOK II.
  7. BOOK III.
  8. BOOK IV.
  9. BOOK V.
  10. BOOK VI.
  11. BOOK VII.
  12. BOOK VIII.
  13. BOOK IX.
  14. BOOK X.
  15. BOOK XI.
  16. BOOK XII.
  17. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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