This Halcyon Classics ebook THE CONFESSIONS is the autobiography of Swiss philosopher and thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Covering the first fifty-three years of Rousseau's life, up to 1765, it was completed in 1769, but not published until 1782, four years after Rousseau's death. Rousseau provides an account of the experiences that shaped his influential philosophy. THE CONFESSIONS is also noted for its detailed account of Rousseau's more humiliating and shameful moments--including his sexual exploits and his treatment of his five illegitimate children.