Confessions, volumes 5 and 6: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Confessions, volumes 5 and 6, credited to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Confessions, volumes 5 and 6, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Read by Martin Geeson. "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)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Confessions, volumes 5 and 6
• Author credits: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 6:28:58

Catalogue topics

• memoirs
• French literature
• Rousseau

Track guide

1. 01 - Vol. 5: — 17:23
2. 02 - — 18:43
3. 03 - — 16:13
4. 04 - — 18:04
5. 05 - — 20:21
6. 06 - — 17:30
7. 07 - — 20:20
8. 08 - — 17:21
9. 09 - — 18:01
10. 10 - — 19:15
11. 11 - — 15:36
12. 12 - Vol. 6: — 25:24
13. 13 - — 25:40
14. 14 - — 16:51
15. 15 - — 19:15
16. 16 - — 17:46
17. 17 - — 19:52
18. 18 - — 17:29
19. 19 - — 22:47
20. 20 - — 25:16

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