The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell.
Russell, Bertrand.
Place Published: Bostom:
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press/Little Brown,
Date Published: 1967.
Description: Stated SECOND PRINTING. This book and dust jacket are in VERY GOOD condition. Dust jacket has some minor chipping along top edges but otherwise in VERY GOOD condition. 356 pages with index plus 8 pages of black and white photos. Dust jacket reads: "Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind . . .Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth." Thus begins THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BERTRAND RUSSELL. Among the towering intellectual and humanitarian figures of this century - Freud, Einstein, Schweitzer, Shaw - only Russell has undertaken to tell the story of his life. Brilliantly written, emotionally charged, witty, historically evocative, this book takes Bertrand Russell through his forty-second year. It is one of the great autobiographies in the English language, a startlingly candid personal narrative that deserves to be placed beside the CONFESSIONS of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Born in 1872, the grandson of one of Victoria's prime ministers, Bertrand Russell was orphaned at an early age. His grandmother, Lady Russell, reared him according to the tenets of Victorian aristocracy. He was tutored at home, and eventually made his way to Cambridge University, where his intellectual virtuosity was at once noticed by Alfred North Whitehead (later to become his collaborator in PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA), and where he very quickly became friends with the great intellectuals of his time - G. E. Moore, John Maynard Keynes, Gilbert Murray, Lowes Dickinson, and others. After finishing Cambridge he was married, at the age of twenty-two, to Alys Smith, the sister of Logan Pearsall Smith and the sister-in-law of Bernard Berenson. It was a rebellious marriage and an idealistic one; it was, eventually, unhappy, and Bertrand Russell does not shy from explaining its unhappiness nor from describing the love affairs that followed it. He also describes the arduous years of labor required to finish PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA, his philosophical disputes and quarrels, his rise to honors, his friendships and his religious and social self-questioning. As the book ends, Russell is preparing to go to jail to protest Britain's involvement in World War I. About all these developments he writes with simplicity, brilliance, and wit. This book confirms once more why Bertrand Russell was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. --------------------------
Edition: First editionBinding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj
Book Id: 641
Price: $10.00
