The Essential Writings of Rousseau - Jean-jacques Rousseau

Peter Constantine, winner of the PEN Translation Prize and a National Translation Award, has earned wide acclaim for his translation of The Undiscovered Chekhov and of the complete works of Isaac Babel, as well as for his Modern Library translations, which include Gogol's Taras Bulba, Voltaire's Candide, Machiavelli's The Prince, and Tolstoy's The Cossacks. n Leo Damrosch is Ernest Bernbaum Research Professor of Literature at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous books, including Tocqueville's Discovery of America and Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius, a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award in nonfiction.n