{"product_id":"2940014511216","title":"Solomon Maimon","description":"This edition features\u003cbr\u003e • a linked Table of Contents and linked Footnotes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003eTranslator's Preface, \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction.—State of Poland in last century, \u003cbr\u003eI.—My Grandfather's Housekeeping,\u003cbr\u003eII.—First Reminiscences of Youth, \u003cbr\u003eIII.—Private Education and Independent Study,\u003cbr\u003eIV.—Jewish Schools—The Joy of being released from them causes a Stiff Foot, \u003cbr\u003eV.—My Family is driven into Misery, and an old Servant loses by his\u003cbr\u003egreat Faithfulness a Christian Burial,                              \u003cbr\u003eVI.—New Abode, New Misery—The Talmudist, \u003cbr\u003eVII.—Joy endureth but a little while, \u003cbr\u003eVIII.—The Pupil knows more than the Teacher—A theft à la\u003cbr\u003eRousseau, which is discovered—\"The ungodly provideth, and\u003cbr\u003e[Pg vi]the righteous putteth it on,\" \u003cbr\u003eIX.—Love Affairs and Matrimonial Proposals—The\u003cbr\u003eSong of Solomon may be used in the service\u003cbr\u003eof Matchmaking—A new Modus Lucrandi—Smallpox, \u003cbr\u003eX.—I become an object of Contention, get two Wives\u003cbr\u003eat once, and am kidnapped at last, \u003cbr\u003eXI.—My Marriage in my eleventh Year makes me the\u003cbr\u003eSlave of my Wife, and procures for me\u003cbr\u003eCudgellings from my Mother-in-Law—A\u003cbr\u003eGhost of Flesh and Blood, \u003cbr\u003eXII.—The Secrets of the Marriage State—Prince\u003cbr\u003eRadzivil, or what is not all allowed in\u003cbr\u003ePoland?\u003cbr\u003eXIII.—Endeavour after mental Culture amid ceaseless\u003cbr\u003eStruggles with Misery of every Kind,\u003cbr\u003eXIV.—I study the Cabbalah, and become at last a\u003cbr\u003ePhysician, \u003cbr\u003eXV.—A brief Exposition of the Jewish Religion from\u003cbr\u003eits Origin down to the most recent Times, \u003cbr\u003eXVI.—Jewish Piety and Penances, \u003cbr\u003eXVII.—Friendship and Enthusiasm, \u003cbr\u003eXVIII.—The Life of a Family Tutor,\u003cbr\u003eXIX.—Also on a Secret Society, and therefore a Long\u003cbr\u003eChapter,\u003cbr\u003eXX.—Continuation of the Former, and also Something\u003cbr\u003e[Pg vii]about Religious Mysteries, \u003cbr\u003eXXI.—Journeys to Königsberg, Stettin, and Berlin, for\u003cbr\u003ethe purpose of extending my Knowledge of\u003cbr\u003eMen, \u003cbr\u003eXXII.—Deepest Stage of Misery, and Deliverance, \u003cbr\u003eXXIII.—Arrival in Berlin—Acquaintances—Mendelssohn—Desperate\u003cbr\u003eStudy of Metaphysics—Doubts—Lectures\u003cbr\u003eon Locke and Adelung, \u003cbr\u003eXXIV.—Mendelssohn—A Chapter devoted to the Memory\u003cbr\u003eof a worthy Friend, \u003cbr\u003eXXV.—My Aversion at first for Belles Lettres, and my\u003cbr\u003esubsequent Conversion—Departure from Berlin—Sojourn\u003cbr\u003ein Hamburg—I drown myself in\u003cbr\u003ethe same way as a bad Actor shoots himself—An\u003cbr\u003eold Fool of a Woman falls in Love with\u003cbr\u003eme, but her Addresses are rejected, \u003cbr\u003eXXVI.—I return to Hamburg—A Lutheran Pastor\u003cbr\u003epronounces me to be a scabby Sheep, and\u003cbr\u003eunworthy of Admission into the Christian\u003cbr\u003eFold—I enter the Gymnasium, and frighten\u003cbr\u003ethe Chief Rabbi out of his Wits, \u003cbr\u003eXXVII.—Third journey to Berlin—Frustrated Plan of\u003cbr\u003eHebrew Authorship—Journey to Breslau—Divorce, \u003cbr\u003eXXVIII.—Fourth journey to Berlin—Unfortunate\u003cbr\u003ecircumstances—Help—Study of Kant's Writings—Characteristic\u003cbr\u003eof my own Works, \u003cbr\u003eConcluding Chapter","brand":"VolumesOfValue","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152895983856,"sku":"2940014511216","price":3.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014511216_p0.jpg?v=1763609999","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014511216","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}