Jessica Mitford
"Riveting...the detailed expression of a mind of a genius in the making."


Leonard Woolf
"He is frank about himself--his acts, thoughts and emotions--as Pepys or Roussau, and the book is, therefore, like theirs, an extraordinary psychological revelation."


Book Description
Now available in a single paperback, this edition of Russell's Autobiography includes an introduction by scholar Michael Foot exploring the status of this classic nearly 30 years after the publication of its last volume.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and the unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither . . . over a deep ocean

of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair." -- Bertrand Russell

Champion of intellectual, social and sexual freedom, campaigner for peace and for civil and human rights, Bertrand Russell remains one of the greatest and most complex and controversial figures of the

twentieth century. His childhood was bitterly lonely but rich in experience. His adulthood was spent grappling with both his own beliefs and the problems of the universe and mankind, and the pursuit of love and permanent happiness which resulted in five marriages. This new edition of

Russell's Autobiography, available for the first time in one volume, shares a life of incredible variety, and is told with vigor, charm and total frankness.