The Body Politic, Jean Jacques Rousseau'No true Democracy has ever existed, nor ever will exist.' In this selection from The Social Contract, Rousseau asserts that a state's only legitimate political authority comes from its people. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries

where everyone drives Porches

At once deadly serious and dazzlingly playful

Room is a tale at once shocking

With his indomitable spirit and never-give-up attitude

Both the story of a mother’s love and the sacrifices she will make for her child

more than half a life ago

some of them potentially fatal

Finding out what the objects represent is her only chance to find out about the mother she never knew

and we can watch

yet watches him

please don’t tell them what happens either

One by one