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Les Confessions
- 606 pages · about 10 hours
- First published 1782
- 244 editions
- Free to read
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1 About this book
The Confessions is an autobiographical book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In the modern era, it is often published with the title The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in order to distinguish it from Saint Augustine's Confessions.
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, even though Rousseau did read excerpts of his manuscript publicly at various salons and other meeting places.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Good for readers who want: a true life story, a classic, philosophy, and a long read.
- Biography
- Classics
- Autobiography
- Philosophy
- Authors, biography
- Biography & autobiography
- Correspondence
- Childhood and youth
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