Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise — known in English translation as Eloisa — was published in 1761 and became one of the best-selling novels of the entire eighteenth century. Told through an exchange of passionate letters between the tutor Saint-Preux and his pupil Julie d’Etange, it is a deeply felt exploration of love, virtue, social constraint, and the natural life that prefigured Romanticism across Europe.
This text is available in English translation from the original French. Rousseau’s exploration of sentiment and nature had a profound influence on European literature and thought. Download this free EPUB from Better Gutenberg to read a foundational work of the pre-Romantic era.