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by Emma Goldman; Introduction by Miriam Brody

Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and free love, Emma Goldman was the most famous and notorious woman in the early twentieth century. This abridged version of her two-volume autobiography takes her from her birthplace in czarist Russia to the socialist enclaves of Manhattan's Lower East Side. Against a dramatic backdrop of political argument, show trials, imprisonment, and tempestuous romances, Goldman chronicles the epoch that she helped shape: the reform movements of the Progressive Era, the early years of and later disillusionment with Lenin's Bolshevik experiment, and more. Sounding a call still heard today, Living My Life is a riveting account of political ferment and ideological turbulence.


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Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and free love, Emma Goldman was the most famous—and notorious—woman in the early twentieth century. This abridged version of her two-volume autobiography takes her from her birthplace in czarist Russia to the socialist enclaves of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Against a dramatic backdrop of political argument, show trials, imprisonment, and tempestuous romances, Goldman chronicles the epoch that she helped shape: the reform movements of the Progressive Era, the early years of and later disillusionment with Lenin’s Bolshevik experiment, and more. Sounding a call still heard today, Living My Life is a riveting account of political ferment and ideological turbulence.

  • First time in Penguin Classics
  • Condensed to half the length of Goldman's original work, this edition is accessible to those interested in the activist and her extraordinary era

 

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Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and free love, Emma Goldman was the most famous--and notorious--woman in the early twentieth century. This abridged version of her two-volume autobiography takes her from her birthplace in czarist Russia to the socialist enclaves of Manhattan's Lower East Side. Against a dramatic backdrop of political argument, show trials, imprisonment, and tempestuous romances, Goldman chronicles the epoch that she helped shape: the reform movements of the Progressive Era, the early years of and later disillusionment with Lenin's Bolshevik experiment, and more. Sounding a call still heard today, Living My Life is a riveting account of political ferment and ideological turbulence.

  • First time in Penguin Classics

  • Condensed to half the length of Goldman's original work, this edition is accessible to those interested in the activist and her extraordinary era

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  • Title Living My Life
  • Author Emma Goldman; Introduction by Miriam Brody
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Abridged
  • Pages 672
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group, New York, NY
  • Date 2006-04-01
  • Abridged Yes
  • Features Abridged, Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780142437858 / 0142437859
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.7 x 5 x 1.3 in (19.56 x 12.70 x 3.30 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Goldman, Emma, Anarchists - United States - Biography
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005054420
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 03/01/2006, Page 137

About the author

Emma Goldman (1869-1940) came to America from Russia when she was sixteen. As a political activist, publisher, lecturer, and writer, she was a central figure in the radical social movements of her age.

Miriam Brody has written biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft and Victoria Woodhull.

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