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Confessions, volumes 5 and 6

"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)

Year of Publication: 1903Genres: Psychology,Memoirs

Running Time: 6 hours 28 minutes 58 seconds(20 chapters)

Language: EnglishRead by: Martin Geeson

#	Chapter Name
	01 - Vol. 5: "It was, I believe, in 1732..." Martin Geeson	17:23
	02 - "At that time, the study I am now speaking of..." Martin Geeson	18:42
	03 - "Behold me then so full of this concert..." Martin Geeson	16:12
	04 - "This is, perhaps, the only time..." Martin Geeson	18:03
	05 - "However this might be..." Martin Geeson	20:21
	06 - "If some false principles misled her..." Martin Geeson	17:30
	07 - "At Chambery they did not give us the trouble..." Martin Geeson	20:19
	08 - "I am now about to relate another..." Martin Geeson	17:21
	09 - "I now touch on the moment..." Martin Geeson	18:00
	10 - "My uncle Bernard died at Carolina..." Martin Geeson	19:15
	11 - "Any one would allow that it would have been..." Martin Geeson	15:36
	12 - Vol. 6: "Hoc erat in votis..." Martin Geeson	25:24
	13 - "Having left my scholars for so long..." Martin Geeson	25:40
	14 - "From these studies I passed..." Martin Geeson	16:50
	15 - "The writings of Port-Royal..." Martin Geeson	19:14
	16 - "My health was not yet re-established..." Martin Geeson	17:46
	17 - "We arrived at Valence to dinner..." Martin Geeson	19:52
	18 - "I was so much better..." Martin Geeson	17:29
	19 - "My impatience to arrive at Chambery..." Martin Geeson	22:46
	20 - "Insensibly, I found myself desolate and alone..." Martin Geeson	25:15