World Literature Classics Collection - Confessions (Complete Translation with Illustrations)

Author: Rousseau
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Publish Date: 2005-11-01
Features: "Confessions" is a autobiographical novel written by the famous 18th-century French Enlightenment thinker, educator, and writer Rousseau in his later years. In the book, Rousseau narrates more than 50 years of his life experiences from birth to 1766, leaving the Saint-Pierre Island, with astonishing honesty, candid attitude, and profound introspection, telling his entire thoughts and feelings, analyzing his actions and inner world. The publication of the novel paved the way for Romantic literature and profoundly influenced the development of European thought and literature in the 19th century.