Autobiography by John Stuart Mill (Penguin Classics)

Essential Reading for Students of Philosophy and Victorian History

Good Condition – Typical light shelf wear for a Penguin Classic; clean pages; spine is uncreased (or minimally creased), suggesting a carefully read or unread copy. A great working edition for academic study.

Dive into the mind of one of the 19th century’s most profound thinkers with this Penguin Classics edition of John Stuart Mill's Autobiography!

Known for generating a reaction "with either awe or horror", Mill's account reveals the truly extraordinary education that led him to study arithmetic at three and be reading Hume and Gibbon by age six.

More than just a record of intellectual achievement, this book includes the moving and central account of the 'mental crisis' he suffered as a young man. This crisis, and his subsequent discovery of the world of feeling, helped him reconcile the struggle between thought and feeling that ultimately improved his intellectual and moral philosophy.