Confessions

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Overview

The Confessions of Rousseau, perhaps the first modern autobiography, combines a retelling of the 53 years of his eventful with life, with astute psychological self-analysis. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was leading enlightenment thinker.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789430523
Publisher:	Benediction Classics
Publication date:	10/22/2019
Pages:	460
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.02(d)

About the Author

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) is the author of numerous political and philosophical texts as well as entries on music for Diderot's Encyclopédie and the novels La nouvelle Héloïse and Émile.

J. M. Cohen, born in London in 1903 and a Cambridge graduate, was the author of many Penguin translations, including versions of Cervantes, Rabelais and Montaigne. For some years he assisted E. V. Rieu in editing the Penguin Classics. He collected the three books of Comic and Curious Verse and anthologies of Latin American and Cuban writing. He frequently visited Spain and made several visits to Mexico, Cuba and other Spanish American countries. With his son Mark he edited the Penguin Dictionary of Quotations and its companion Dictionary of Modern Quotations.

Table of Contents

The Confessions - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Introduction
The First Part
Book One
Book Two
Book Three
Book Four
Book Five
Book Six
The Second Part
Book Seven
Book Eight
Book Nine
Book Ten
Book Eleven
Book Twelve
Notes

Editorial Reviews

Davidson’s articulate and lightly vocalized rendering is an invaluable help to the listener…This audio may be savored over time, and is well worth the effort. Davidson’s cultured, ironic tone meshes well with Rousseau’s canny genius.”

Kliatt