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Confessions, volumes 5 and 6

Confessions, volumes 5 and 6

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Number of Chapters: 20

Length: 6 hours and 28 minutes

Language: English

"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)

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01 - Vol. 5: "It was, I believe, in 1732..." (Martin Geeson)
02 - "At that time, the study I am now speaking of..." (Martin Geeson)
03 - "Behold me then so full of this concert..." (Martin Geeson)
04 - "This is, perhaps, the only time..." (Martin Geeson)
05 - "However this might be..." (Martin Geeson)
06 - "If some false principles misled her..." (Martin Geeson)
07 - "At Chambery they did not give us the trouble..." (Martin Geeson)
08 - "I am now about to relate another..." (Martin Geeson)
09 - "I now touch on the moment..." (Martin Geeson)
10 - "My uncle Bernard died at Carolina..." (Martin Geeson)
11 - "Any one would allow that it would have been..." (Martin Geeson)
12 - Vol. 6: "Hoc erat in votis..." (Martin Geeson)
13 - "Having left my scholars for so long..." (Martin Geeson)
14 - "From these studies I passed..." (Martin Geeson)
15 - "The writings of Port-Royal..." (Martin Geeson)
16 - "My health was not yet re-established..." (Martin Geeson)
17 - "We arrived at Valence to dinner..." (Martin Geeson)
18 - "I was so much better..." (Martin Geeson)
19 - "My impatience to arrive at Chambery..." (Martin Geeson)
20 - "Insensibly, I found myself desolate and alone..." (Martin Geeson)
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