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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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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy History of Western philosophy

• Full title: Autobiography
• Author: John Stuart Mill
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9780140433166
• ISBN: 0140433163
• ID: 04024006
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 186 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 129 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 23. November 1989

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