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Title: uvres comple tes de Jean Jacques Rousseau. Nouvelle e
dition, classe e par ordre de matie res, etc. (Voyage a
Ermenonville par feu M. Le Tourneur, pour servir de pre face.)
Edited by L. S. Mercier, G. Brizard, and F. H. S. de L'Aulnaye.]
F.P.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It
is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150
million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals,
newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and
much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along
with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and
historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL
HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library
digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes material
that gives readers a 19th century view of the world. Topics include
health, education, economics, agriculture, environment, technology,
culture, politics, labour and industry, mining, penal policy, and
social order. ++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++ British Library Rousseau, Jean;
Brizard, Gabriel; null 38 tom.; 4 . 12270.p.1.
Title: uvres comple tes de Jean Jacques Rousseau. Nouvelle e
dition, classe e par ordre de matie res, etc. (Voyage a
Ermenonville par feu M. Le Tourneur, pour servir de pre face.)
Edited by L. S. Mercier, G. Brizard, and F. H. S. de L'Aulnaye.]
F.P.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It
is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150
million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals,
newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and
much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along
with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and
historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF TRAVEL
collection includes books from the British Library digitised by
Microsoft. This collection contains personal narratives, travel
guides and documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and
female. Also included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal
narratives of trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe,
Africa and the Middle East. ++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Rousseau, Jean;
Brizard, Gabriel; null 38 tom.; 4 . 12270.p.1.
Title: uvres comple tes de Jean Jacques Rousseau. Nouvelle e
dition, classe e par ordre de matie res, etc. (Voyage a
Ermenonville par feu M. Le Tourneur, pour servir de pre face.)
Edited by L. S. Mercier, G. Brizard, and F. H. S. de L'Aulnaye.]
F.P.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It
is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150
million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals,
newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and
much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along
with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and
historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF TRAVEL
collection includes books from the British Library digitised by
Microsoft. This collection contains personal narratives, travel
guides and documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and
female. Also included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal
narratives of trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe,
Africa and the Middle East. ++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Rousseau, Jean;
Brizard, Gabriel; null 38 tom.; 4 . 12270.p.1.
Newcomers to Rousseau's works and those who are familiar with his
writings will find something to surprise them both in this wide
variety of short pieces from every period of his life. Among the
important theoretical writings found here are the"Fiction or
Allegorical Fragment on Revelation" and the "Moral Letters," which
are among Rousseau's clearest statements about the nature and
limits of philosophic reasoning. In the early "Idea of a Method for
the Composition of a Book," Rousseau lays out in advance his
understanding of how to present his ideas to the public. He ponders
the possibilities for and consequences of air travel in "The New
Daedalus." This volume also contains both his first and last
autobiographical statements. Some of these writings show Rousseau's
lesser-known playful side. A comic fairy tale,"Queen Whimsical",
explores the consequences - both serious and ridiculous - for a
kingdom when the male heir to the throne, endowed with the
frivolous characteristics of his mother, has a sister with all the
characteristics of a good monarch. When Rousseau was asked whether
a fifty-year old man could write love letters to a young woman
without appearing ridiculous, he responded with "Letters to
Sophie," which attempt to demonstrate that such a man could write
as many as four - but not as many as six - letters before he became
a laughingstock. In "The Banterer," he challenges readers to guess
whether the work they are reading was written by an author who is
"wisely mad" or by one who is "madly wise." When Rousseau was
challenged to write a merry tale, "without intrigue, without love,
without marriage, and without lewdness," he produced a work
considered too daring to be published in France.
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