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Confessions, volumes 3 and 4

Confessions, volumes 3 and 4

by Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU (1712 - 1778)

“The smallest, the most trifling pleasure that is conveniently within my reach, tempts me more than all the joys of paradise.” Here again is the youthful, hero-worshipping Jean-Jacques – displaying an emotional immaturity that leads him into picaresque escapades in the company of transients and misfits, always ending in reunion with mother-surrogate Madame de Warens. In a literally unprecedented gesture of self-revelation, Rousseau opens Volume 3 exposing himself indecently in dark alleyways. This 1903 edition fails to appreciate the humorous strangeness of the passage and removes it to protect the reader. (Summary by Martin Geeson)


01 - Vol. 3: "Leaving the service of Mme de V..."

02 - "Mlle de Breil was about my own age..."

03 - "There were at Turin several new converts..."

04 - "How did my heart beat..."

05 - "I never recollect to have enjoyed the future..."

06 - "This life was too delightful..."

07 - "What a change! but I was obliged..."

08 - "I was destined to be the outcast..."

09 - "The Chapter of Geneva..."

10 - Vol. 4: "Let anyone judge my surprise..."

11 - "Arrived at Toune, and myself well dried..."

12 - "One morning, when he expected to give audience..."

13 - "I did not return to Nion..."

14 - "It is a long time since I mentioned..."

15 - "We began our expedition unsuccessfully..."

16 - "How much did Paris disappoint..."

17 - "One day, among others..."

18 - "I remained at Lyon seven or eight days..."