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by Bertrand Russell (Author), The Right Honourable Michael Foot (Introduction) "My first vivid recollection is my arrival at Pembroke Lodge in February 1876 ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 760 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge; 2 edition (10 Mar 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 041522862X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0415228626
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13 x 4.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 132,482 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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One of the truly great autobiographies of all time --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.


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'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. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.' - Bertrand Russell, Autobiography

'Here is an epic, written with all the combined passion and clarity of which he was the master. Both the warnings of calamity and the recoveries of hope ring across the intervening years.' - Michael Foot, Introduction

'[He] believed that he derived at least part of his inspiration from the fountain of eighteenth-century rationalism and ... so often, when he was on the `verge of despair', he could still find the honest words to restore his faith in the human race.' - Michael Foot, Introduction

Witty, invigorating, marvellously candid and generous in spirit. - Times Literary Supplement

'One of the truly great autobiographies of all time.' - Evening Standard

'A marvel of intelligence, lucidity and with: a marvel of undeviating concern for his fellow humans.' - Philip Toynbee

'A marvel of intelligence, lucidity and wit; a marvel of undeviating concern for his fellow humans.' - Philip Toynbee

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

Among the most glittering literary products of the decade.' - Bernard Levin

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5.0 out of 5 stars Screw 'Erdos Numbers' and 'Bacon numbers', Bertrand Russell knows everyone., 19 Sep 2009
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This is an interesting insight into one the 20th century's clearest and sharpest minds. Between his birth in 1872 and his death almost a century later in 1970, he travelled far and wide, his thoughts were broad and deep, and he consistently met, talked, and wrote with a spectrum of interesting people people: from H G Wells to Einstein. His Nobel Prize in Literature was well deserved, both for his effortless language and his breadth and depth of scholarship. Excellent addition to any book shelf!
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