Autobiography Contributor(s): John Stuart Mill (Author) |
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ISBN: 1517309468 ISBN-13: 9781517309466 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $6.28 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2015 |
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BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary |
Physical Information: 0.23" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.34 lbs) 98 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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. |