Book 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.
