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Eloisa: or, A series of original letters

By Jean-Jacques Rousseau (translated by W. Kenrick)

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Cover: The Reader (c. 1770), oil on canvas by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1806)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau's 1761 novel in letters tells of Julie, a Swiss nobleman's daughter, and her tutor Saint-Preux, whom she may not marry. A reader finds a long epistolary romance of passion and duty.

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Table of contents

  1. 1: To Eloisa
  2. 2: To Eloisa
  3. 3: To Eloisa
  4. 4: From Eloisa
  5. 5: To Eloisa
  6. 6: Eloisa To Clara
  7. 7: Answer
  8. 8: To Eloisa
  9. 9: From Eloisa
  10. 10: To Eloisa
  11. 11: From Eloisa
  12. 12: To Eloisa
  13. 13: From Eloisa
  14. 14: To Eloisa
  15. 15: From Eloisa
  16. 16: Answer
  17. 17: Reply
  18. 18: To Eloisa
  19. 19: To Eloisa
  20. 20: From Eloisa
  21. 21: To Eloisa
  22. 22: From Eloisa
  23. 23: To Eloisa
  24. 24: To Eloisa
  25. 25: From Eloisa
  26. 26: To Eloisa
  27. 27: From Clara
  28. 28: From Eloisa to Clara
  29. 29: From Eloisa to Clara
  30. 30: The Answer
  31. 31: To Eloisa
  32. 32: Answer
  33. 33: From Eloisa
  34. 34: The Answer
  35. 35: From Eloisa
  36. 36: From Eloisa
  37. 37: From Eloisa
  38. 38: To Eloisa
  39. 39: From Eloisa
  40. 40: From Fanny Regnard to Eloisa
  41. 41: The Answer
  42. 42: To Eloisa
  43. 43: To Eloisa
  44. 44: From Eloisa
  45. 45: To Eloisa
  46. 46: From Eloisa
  47. 47: To Eloisa
  48. 48: To Eloisa
  49. 49: From Eloisa
  50. 50: From Eloisa
  51. 51: Letter 51
  52. 52: From Eloisa
  53. 53: From Eloisa
  54. 54: To Eloisa
  55. 55: To Eloisa
  56. 56: From Clara to Eloisa
  57. 57: From Eloisa
  58. 58: From Eloisa to Lord B----
  59. 59: From Mr. Orbe to Eloisa
  60. 60: To Eloisa
  61. 61: From Eloisa
  62. 62: From Clara
  63. 63: From Eloisa to Clara
  64. 64: Clara to Mr. Orbe
  65. 65: Clara to Eloisa
  66. 66: To Eloisa
  67. 67: Lord B---- to Mrs. Orbe
  68. 68: Lord B---- to Eloisa
  69. 69: Eloisa to Clara
  70. 70: Answer to the Preceding
  71. 71: Eloisa to Lord B----
  72. 72: From Eloisa
  73. 73: From Clara
  74. 74: From Lord B---- To Eloisa
  75. 75: To Clara
  76. 76: From Eloisa
  77. 77: To Eloisa
  78. 78: To Eloisa
  79. 79: To Eloisa
  80. 80: From Eloisa
  81. 81: To Eloisa
  82. 82: To Eloisa
  83. 83: From Eloisa
  84. 84: To Eloisa
  85. 85: From Eloisa
  86. 86: To Eloisa
  87. 87: To Eloisa
  88. 88: To Mrs. Orbe
  89. 89: From Eloisa
  90. 90: To Eloisa
  91. 91: To Eloisa
  92. 92: The Answer
  93. 93: From Eloisa
  94. 94: From Mrs. Orbe
  95. 95: To The Baroness D’Etange
  96. 96: To Mrs. Orbe,
  97. 97: From Mrs. Orbe
  98. 98: From Eloisa
  99. 99: To Mrs. Orbe
  100. 100: The Answer
  101. 101: From Lord B----
  102. 102: The Answer
  103. 103: From the Baron D’Etange
  104. 104: The Answer
  105. 105: From Eloisa
  106. 106: From Eloisa to Mrs. Orbe
  107. 107: The Answer
  108. 108: From Eloisa
  109. 109: The Answer
  110. 110: From Mrs. Orbe
  111. 111: From Eloisa
  112. 112: To Eloisa
  113. 113: From Eloisa
  114. 114: To Lord B----
  115. 115: Answer
  116. 116: From Lord B----
  117. 117: Answer
  118. 118: From Lord B----
  119. 119: To Mrs. Orbe
  120. 120: From Mrs. Wolmar to Mrs. Orbe
  121. 121: Answer
  122. 122: To Mrs. Orbe
  123. 123: From Mr. Wolmar
  124. 124: From Mrs. Orbe
  125. 125: To Lord B----
  126. 126: Mrs. Wolmar to Mrs. Orbe
  127. 127: Answer
  128. 128: Clara to Eloisa
  129. 129: To Lord B----
  130. 130: To Lord B----
  131. 131: Mrs. Wolmar to Mrs. Orbe
  132. 132: Answer
  133. 133: Mr. Wolmar to Mrs. Orbe
  134. 134: To Lord B----
  135. 135: Mrs. Wolmar to her Husband
  136. 136: To Lord B----
  137. 137: From Lord B----
  138. 138: To Lord B----
  139. 139: To Lord B----
  140. 140: From Lord B---- to Mrs. Orbe
  141. 141: To Lord B----
  142. 142: To Lord B----
  143. 143: To Lord B----
  144. 144: To Mr. WOLMAR
  145. 145: To Mrs. Orbe
  146. 146: From Mrs. Orbe
  147. 147: From Mr. Wolmar
  148. 148: To Mr. Wolmar
  149. 149: Mrs. Wolmar to Mrs. Orbe
  150. 150: Harriot to her Mother
  151. 151: Mrs. Orbe to Mrs. Wolmar
  152. 152: Mrs. Orbe to Mrs. Wolmar
  153. 153: Lord B---- to Mr. Wolmar
  154. 154: Answer
  155. 155: Mrs. Orbe to Mrs. Wolmar
  156. 156: From Mrs. Wolmar
  157. 157: Answer
  158. 158: From Mrs. Wolmar
  159. 159: From Fanny Anet
  160. 160: From Mrs. Orbe
  161. 161: From Mr. Wolmar
  162. 162: From Eloisa
  163. 163: From Mrs. Orbe