Confessions
1782 · 676 pages
Every confessional memoir descends from this. Rousseau promised to show himself entire and delivered: the ribbon he stole and blamed on a servant girl, the five children he gave to a foundling hospital.
★ 7.1
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Dangerous Liaisons
1782 · 448 pages
Two aristocrats conduct seduction as a military campaign, and every move reaches us through their own letters. Their targets are a devout married woman and a girl just out of the convent.
★ 6.6