title: The Confessions (Penguin Classics)
author:  Jean-Jacques Rousseau 
description: In his posthumously published Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) describes the first fifty-three years of his life. With a frankness at times almost disconcerting, but always refreshing, he set out to reveal the whole truth about himself to the world and succeeded in producing a masterpiece which has left its indelible imprint on the literature of successive generations, influencing among others Proust, Goethe and Tolstoy.
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  The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Book II. by
  Jean Jacques Rousseau
  
  
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  Title: The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Book II.
  
  
  Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau
  
  
  Release Date: December 6, 2004 [EBook #3902]
  
  
  Language: English
  
  
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  START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ROUSSEAU
  
  
  
  
  
  Produced by David Widger
  
  
  THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books)
  
  
  Privately Printed for the Members of the Aldus Society
  
  
  London, 1903
  
  
  BOOK II.
  
  
  The moment in which fear had instigated my flight, did not seem more terrible
  than that wherein I put my design in execution appeared delightful. To leave
  my relations, my resources, while yet a child, in the midst