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  • Published: 23 November 1989
  • ISBN: 9780140433166
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $29.99
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Autobiography




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.

  • Published: 23 November 1989
  • ISBN: 9780140433166
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $29.99
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