Autobiography av John Robson, John Stuart Mill

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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 <i>On Liberty</i>, <i>Utilitarianism</i>, <i>The Subjection of Women </i>and this <i>Autobiography</i> - 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.<br><br>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking wo