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Confessions
by Rousseau, Jean-Jacques ; edited and introduced by P.N. Furbank
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No DJ
- ISBN 10
- 067940998X
- ISBN 13
- 9780679409984
- Seller
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About This Item
New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. 4th Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No DJ. A ring mark on front otherwise could pass for new. Sewn binding. Green cloth over boards with black title box on spine, gold colored spine print. Green silk marker ribbon. Endpapers each have a light yellow triangle with logo enclosed. Everyman"s Library Classics 84 (first included in 1931). 4th printing (US). Introduction pp ix- xxxiii by P.N. Furbank. Page xxxiv "Note on the text" states in its entirety "The text of the present [1992] edition is, with some changes and emendations, that of the anonymous translation (the first unexpurgated version in English) first published in 1904. The present editor has also combined some of the notes form the 1904 edition with his own. Rousseau's own notes have been distinguished by the symbol '(R)'." Select Bibliography page xxxv. Chronology pp xxxvi - xliii. Text 716 pages + (2). The book is set in Garamond (1922) typography by Peter B. Wilberg. Book design by Barbara de Wilde and Carol Devine Carson. Printed in Germany by GGP Media. Superior production values in an iconic series. Bookstore price sticker on back with no dust jacket as is common with retail editions (dust jackets and glissine covers issued with first printings only or gift editions).
Synopsis
J. M. Cohen , born in London in 1903 and a Cambridge graduate, was the author of many Penguin translations, including versions of Cervantes, Rabelais and Montaigne. For some years he assisted E. V. Rieu in editing the Penguin Classics. He collected the three books of Comic and Curious Verse and anthologies of Latin American and Cuban writing. He frequently visited Spain and made several visits to Mexico, Cuba and other Spanish American countries. With his son Mark he edited the Penguin Dictionary of Quotations and its companion Dictionary of Modern Quotations . J. M. Cohen died in 1989. The Times’ obituary described him as ‘the translator of the foreign prose classics for our times’ and ‘one of the last great English men of letters’, while the Independent wrote that ‘his influence will be felt for generations to come’. J. M. Cohen , born in London in 1903 and a Cambridge graduate, was the author of many Penguin translations, including versions of Cervantes, Rabelais and Montaigne. For some years he assisted E. V. Rieu in editing the Penguin Classics. He collected the three books of Comic and Curious Verse and anthologies of Latin American and Cuban writing. He frequently visited Spain and made several visits to Mexico, Cuba and other Spanish American countries. With his son Mark he edited the Penguin Dictionary of Quotations and its companion Dictionary of Modern Quotations . J. M. Cohen died in 1989. The Times’ obituary described him as ‘the translator of the foreign prose classics for our times’ and ‘one of the last great English men of letters’, while the Independent wrote that ‘his influence will be felt for generations to come’.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14097
- Title
- Confessions
- Author
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques ; edited and introduced by P.N. Furbank
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No DJ
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 4th Printing
- ISBN 10
- 067940998X
- ISBN 13
- 9780679409984
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- ABI PM AJ2
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Biblio, ABI;
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