The Confession of a Child of the Century — Complete
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- CONFESSION OF A CHILD OF THE CENTURY
- (Confession d’un Enfant du Siecle)
- With a Preface by HENRI DE BORNIER, of the French Academy
- ALFRED DE MUSSET
- THE CONFESSIONS OF A CHILD OF THE CENTURY
- BOOK 1.
- PART I
- CHAPTER I. TO THE READER
- CHAPTER II. REFLECTIONS
- CHAPTER III. THE BEGINNING OF THE CONFESSIONS
- I have to explain how I was first taken with the malady of the age.
- CHAPTER IV. THE PATH OF DESPAIR
- CHAPTER V. A PHILOSOPHER’S ADVICE
- CHAPTER VI. MADAME LEVASSEUR
- CHAPTER VII. THE WISDOM OF SIRACH
- CHAPTER VIII. THE SEARCH FOR HEALING
- Yet I was unwilling to yield.
- CHAPTER IX. BACCHUS, THE CONSOLER
- PART II
- CHAPTER I. AT THE CROSSWAYS
- CHAPTER II. THE CHOSEN WAY
- CHAPTER III. AFRICAN HOSPITALITY
- CHAPTER IV. MARCO
- CHAPTER V. SATIETY
- BOOK 2.
- PART III
- CHAPTER I. DEATH, THE INEVITABLE
- CHAPTER II. THE BALM OF SOLITUDE
- CHAPTER III. BRIGITTE
- CHAPTER IV. RIPENING ACQUAINTANCE
- CHAPTER V. AN INTERVIEW
- CHAPTER VI. THE RUGGED PATH OF LOVE
- CHAPTER VII. THE VENUSBERG AGAIN
- PART IV
- CHAPTER I. THE THORNS OF LOVE
- CHAPTER II. UNCERTAINTY
- CHAPTER III. EXPLANATIONS
- CHAPTER IV. BRIGITTE’S LOSS
- CHAPTER V. A TORTURED SOUL
- BOOK 3.
- PART V
- CHAPTER I. SWEET ANTICIPATIONS
- CHAPTER II. THE DEMON OF DOUBT
- CHAPTER III. THE QUESTION OF SMITH
- CHAPTER IV. IN THE FURNACE
- CHAPTER V. TRUTH AT LAST
- CHAPTER VI. SELF-SACRIFICE THE SOLUTION
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