Reveries of the Solitary Walker Military history Alison Hart

Alison Hart

‘An utter delight of a book’

she admires the notorious queen most in her circle abhor: Eleanor of Aquitaine

’ – reader review

Reveries of the Solitary Walker Military history Alison HartRousseau's final work and meditation After a period of forced exile and solitary wandering brought about by his radical views on religion and politics, Jean Jacques Rousseau returned to Paris in 1770. Here, in the last two years of his life, he wrote his final work, the Reveries. In this eloquent masterpiece the great political thinker describes his sense of isolation from a society he felt had rejected his writings and the manner in which he has come