Autobiography by John Stuart Mill (Riverside Editions Edited by Jack Stillinger)

Mill, John Stuart

ISBN 10: 0395051207 / ISBN 13: 9780395051207

Published by Houghton Mifflin College Div, 1969

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Autobiography by John Stuart Mill (Riverside Editions Edited by Jack Stillinger)
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin College Div
• Publication Date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0395051207
• ISBN 13: 9780395051207
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fine

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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.

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Through Mill's autobiography, the social and political climate of nineteenth century England comes alive. The reader is given new insights into the events of an age: the reform movements, the English-Irish question, the development of democratic principles. With candor and perception, Mill discusses these issues and explains how they influenced his writing and thinking.