The reveries of the solitary walker

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Original title: Rêveries du promeneur solitaire

earliest edition we have, 1979 University Press of New England, 2000 349 pages

The collected writings of Rousseau ;

"Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one of the first great writers to express in all its force the agony of isolation and alienation. In Reveries of the Solitary Walker, ten meditations written in the two years before his death in 1778 and published anonymously in 1792, Rousseau records his state of mind as he walked around Paris, looking at plants and day-dreaming. He goes back over much of his earlier life in an attempt to...

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Rêveries du promeneur solitaire paperback · 2001 · Le Livre de Poche · 223 pages · 9782253160991
The reveries of the solitary walker edition · 2000 · University Press of New England · 349 pages
The reveries of the solitary walker edition · 1992 · Hackett · 266 pages
Reveries of the Solitary Walker paperback · 1982 · HarperCollins (paper) · 9780060909093
The reveries of the solitary walker edition · 1979 · New York University Press · 268 pages
Reveries of the solitary walker edition · 1979 · Penguin Books · 154 pages

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