ROUSSEAU, Jean Jacques.

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The Confessions. A very handsomely bound copy of one of the great autobiographies in world literature.The Confessions had an enormous influence on the development of the autobiography in Europe. "Not only did it set new standards of frankness and self-revelation: its subject was quite new, the formation and analysis of a mind and personality. Just as significantly, it emphasised for the first time the importance and interest of childhood" (Leigh, p. 133).

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