The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete
Rousseau set out to describe a man exactly as he was, and the man was himself: the Genevan watchmaker's son who ran away at sixteen, lived for years under the protection of Madame de Warens, taught himself music, quarreled with Diderot and Voltaire, fathered five children whom he placed in a foundling hospital, and became the most famous and most persecuted writer in Europe. The twelve books of the Confessions, written between 1765 and 1770 and published after his death, run from childhood spankings to the paranoia of his last years with a candor no autobiographer had attempted before. This edition gives the complete English text. It is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, with the first chapter free.
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