The Reveries of a Solitary Walker

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

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