Autobiography
Synopsis
One of the greatest prodigies of his era, John Stuart Mill (1806-73) was studying arithmetic and Greek by the age of three, as part of an astonishingly intense education at his father's hand. Intellectually brilliant, fearless and profound, he became a leading Victorian liberal thinker, whose works - including On Liberty, Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women and this Autobiography - are among the crowning achievements of the age. Here he describes the pressures placed on him by his childhood, the mental breakdown he suffered as a young man, his struggle to understand a world of feelings and emotions far removed from his father's strict didacticism, and the later development of his own radical beliefs. A moving account of an extraordinary life, this great autobiography reveals a man of deep integrity, constantly searching for truth.Book details
- Series:
- Collected Works Of John Stuart Mill
- Author:
- John Stuart Mill, John Robson
- ISBN:
- 9780141904764
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780140433166, 9780140433166, 9780140433166
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Pages:
- N/A
- Reading age:
- Not specified
- Includes images:
- No
- Date of addition:
- 2020-07-23
- Usage restrictions:
- Copyright
- Copyright date:
- 1989
- Copyright by:
- Penguin Books
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- Biographies and Memoirs, Nonfiction, Philosophy