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The confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Published
1936
by Tudor Pub. Co. in New York
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Written in
Edition Notes
| Statement | translated from the French by W. Conyngham Mallory |
| Contributions | Mallory, W. Conyngham, tr |
| The Physical Object | |
|---|---|
| Pagination | xxviii, 1034 p. |
| Number of Pages | 1034 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL16986369M |
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Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Summary. Baby Rousseau is born in to his devoted parents in Geneva, Switzerland. When Rousseau's mom dies in childbirth and his dad gets in trouble with the law, Rousseau is shipped off to live with his uncle Bernard. Rousseau pals around with his cousin, also named Bernard, learns a little bit of Latin, and generally finds mischief wherever he goes.
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It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and Format: NOOK Book (Ebook). Confessions is an autobiographical book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. It covers his life up until fifty-three years of age, so until This autobiography was completed inbut was actually not published until It is a unique autobiography in the fact that Rousseau wrote about even Cited by: The Confessions was two distinct works, each part consisting of six books.
Books I to VI were written between and and published inwhile books VII to XII were written in – and published in [citation needed] Rousseau alludes to a.
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