Description
| Product ID: | 9780140433166 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Autobiography |
| Authors: | Author: John Robson, John Stuart Mill |
| Page Count: | 240 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: historical, political and military, Autobiography: historical, political & military, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1800 to c 1900 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating An autobiography of John Stuart Mill (1806-73). This title 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1989-11-23 |
