Letters on the Elements of Botany

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

Julie, or the New Heloise, the novel in letters about a young tutor and his pupil that became the best seller of the 1760s and helped open the door to Romanticism. The complete four volumes in the 1761 English translation.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau