Eloisa, or a Series of Original Letters

Rousseau tells his own life, from a Geneva childhood spent reading Plutarch to his years of exile, without hiding the episodes that make him look bad. All twelve books of the first modern autobiography in one volume.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Rousseau's last book: ten walks around Paris in which he looks back on his life, on nature and on what makes a person happy, left unfinished at his death in 1778. John Gould Fletcher's translation with his introduction.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Rousseau the plant lover explains botany in friendly letters written to help a young mother teach her daughter, with Thomas Martyn's added letters on the Linnaean system. A scan of the 1791 edition, printed with the old long s.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau