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Autobiography|John Robson

Overview

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.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780140433166
  • ISBN-10: 0140433163
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics
  • Publish Date: April 2006
  • Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.35 pounds
  • Page Count: 240
  • Reading Level: Ages 18-UP

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