The Autobiography of Charles Darwin Darwin Charles
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin Darwin Charles Charles Darwin's Autobiography was first published in 1887, five years after his death. The present complete edition did not appear until 1959, one…
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The Autobiography of Charles Darwin Darwin Charles
Charles Darwin's Autobiography was first published in 1887, five years after his death. The present complete edition did not appear until 1959, one hundred years after the publication of The Origin of Species. It was a bowdlerized edition: Darwin's family, attempting to protect his posthumous reputation, had deleted all the passages they considered too personal or controversial.
Here, for the first time since his death, it is presented complete and unexpurgated, as it exists in the family archives. Upon its appearance, Loren Eiseley wrote: "No man can pretend to know Darwin who does not know his autobiography. It will prove invaluable to biographers and cast new light on the personality of one of the world's greatest scientists.
Nora Barlow, Darwin's granddaughter, has proved herself a superb editor. Her own annotations make fascinating reading."