Confessions, volumes 3 and 4
Author: first_name: Jean-Jacques
last_name: Rousseau
Language: English
Year: 1903

“The smallest, the most trifling pleasure that is conveniently within my reach, tempts me more than all the joys of paradise.”<br><br>

Here again is the youthful, hero-worshiping Jean-Jacques – displaying an emotional immaturity that leads him into picaresque escapades in the company of transients and misfits, always ending in reunion with mother-surrogate Madame de Warens.<br><br>

In a literally unprecedented gesture of self-revelation, Rousseau opens Volume 3 exposing himself indecently