Confessions, volumes 5 and 6

By Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Book Id: WPLBN0002952735
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File Size: 186.78 MB
Reproduction Date: 2010

Title:	Confessions, volumes 5 and 6
Author:	Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
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Language:	English
Subject:	Non-fiction, Memoirs, Biography
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Confessions, volumes 5 and 6
Historic Publication Date:	1903
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Rousseau, B. J. (1903). Confessions, volumes 5 and 6. Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/

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She was more to me than a sister, a mother, a friend, or even than a mistress, and for this very reason she was not a mistress; in a word, I loved her too much to desire her... More of the amours of the twentysomething Jean-Jacques: here initiated into a strangely compromised manhood by his maman and perennial comforter - Was I happy? No: I felt I know-not-what invincible sadness which empoisoned my happiness, it seemed that I had committed an incest, and two or three times, pressing her eagerly in my arms, I deluged her bosom with my tears. On her part, as she had never sought pleasure, she had not the stings of remorse... (Introduction by Martin Geeson)

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

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Memoirs, Biography