The Confessions

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

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