Confessions, volumes 3 and 4

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

18 chapters5h 23mEnglish1903

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“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-worshiping 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)

Chapters (18)

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

1065

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

1044

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

1009

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

1128

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

855

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

1124

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

942

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

1181

909 - "The Chapter of Geneva..."

1099

1010 - Vol. 4: "Let anyone judge my surprise..."

1111

1111 - "Arrived at Toune, and myself well dried..."

1032

1212 - "One morning, when he expected to give audience..."

1134

1313 - "I did not return to Nion..."

1038

1414 - "It is a long time since I mentioned..."

984

1515 - "We began our expedition unsuccessfully..."

1099

1616 - "How much did Paris disappoint..."

1137

1717 - "One day, among others..."

1153

1818 - "I remained at Lyon seven or eight days..."

1248

Confessions, volumes 3 and 4

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Chapters (18)

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