Eloisa — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Topics: класика
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Eloisa: Or, a Series of Original Letters
Collected and published by J.J. Rousseau
Translated from the French.
In Four Volumes.
The Second Edition.
Translation of M. Rousseau’s Preface
Great cities require public theatres, and romances are necessary to a corrupt people. I saw the manners of the times, and have published these letters. Would to heaven I had lived in an age when I ought rather to have thrown them in the fire!
Though I appear only as the editor of this work, I confess that I have had some share in the composition. But am I the sole author, and is the entire correspondence fictitious? Ye people of the world, of what importance is it to you? Certainly, to you, it is all a fiction.
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