# Autobiography

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- Book: [Autobiography](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-stuart-mill/autobiography) ([Autobiography.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-stuart-mill/autobiography.md))
- Authors: [John Stuart Mill](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-stuart-mill), [John Robson](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-robson)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4043-316-6
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2006-04-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## 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.