{"product_id":"the-confessions","title":"The Confessions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe first man to write his whole self down, flattering nothing.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNot yet released.\u003c\/strong\u003e This edition is finished and in production. Write to the press and we will let you know the day it goes on sale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAbout this edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRousseau set out to do what no one had done before him: to show a human being, himself, exactly as he was, vain and generous, tender and treacherous, ridiculous and sincere, concealing nothing shameful or flattering. Across twelve books he retraces a whole life, from a Geneva boyhood through wandering, love, fame, and bitter persecution, with a candour that scandalised his first readers and has held every reader since.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten between 1765 and 1770 and published only after his death, \u003cem\u003eThe Confessions\u003c\/em\u003e is the first modern autobiography, the fountainhead of the intimate, self-accusing memoir that Rousseau invented and few have equalled. It is also one of the great self-portraits of the Enlightenment, by the philosopher whose ideas on nature, feeling, and freedom helped remake the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComplete in twelve books, freshly typeset in EB Garamond and Marcellus behind an original mixed media illustration by JVB Atelier Designs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTranslation: Anonymous (Aldus Society edition, 1903)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNorthlume Classic Library\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 702 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"JVB Atelier","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44686112325674,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0228\/4330\/files\/the-confessions.jpg?v=1786494123","url":"https:\/\/northlume.org\/products\/the-confessions","provider":"Northlume ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}