About this book
"She was more to me than a sister, a mother, a friend, or even than a mistress, and for this very reason she was not a mistress; in a word, I loved her too much to desire her..."More of the amours of the twentysomething Jean-Jacques: here initiated into a strangely compromised manhood by his "maman" and perennial comforter -"Was I happy? No: I felt I know-not-what invincible sadness which empoisoned my happiness, it seemed that I had committed an incest, and two or three times, pressing her eagerly in my arms, I deluged her bosom with my tears. On her part, as she had never sought pleasure, she had not the stings of remorse..."(Introduction by Martin Geeson)
Chapters (20)
101 - Vol. 5: "It was, I believe, in 1732..."
202 - "At that time, the study I am now speaking of..."
303 - "Behold me then so full of this concert..."
404 - "This is, perhaps, the only time..."
505 - "However this might be..."
606 - "If some false principles misled her..."
707 - "At Chambery they did not give us the trouble..."
808 - "I am now about to relate another..."
909 - "I now touch on the moment..."
1010 - "My uncle Bernard died at Carolina..."
1111 - "Any one would allow that it would have been..."
1212 - Vol. 6: "Hoc erat in votis..."
1313 - "Having left my scholars for so long..."
1414 - "From these studies I passed..."
1515 - "The writings of Port-Royal..."
1616 - "My health was not yet re-established..."
1717 - "We arrived at Valence to dinner..."
1818 - "I was so much better..."
1919 - "My impatience to arrive at Chambery..."
2020 - "Insensibly, I found myself desolate and alone..."
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