An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth - Softcover

M.K. Gandhi; Sunil Khilnani; Mahadev Desai; Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi; Mahatma Gandhi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141186860 ISBN 13: 9780141186863

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2001

Synopsis

Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such a level of notoriety, adulation that when asked to write an autobiography midway through his career, he took it as an opportunity to explain himself. He feared the enthusiasm for his ideas tended to exceed a deeper understanding of his quest for truth rooted in devotion to God. His attempts to get closer to this divine power led him to seek purity through simple living, dietary practices, celibacy, and a life without violence. This is not a straightforward narrative biography, in The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Gandhi offers his life story as a reference for those who would follow in his footsteps.

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Review:

"Here is an autobiography more captivating than fiction and more stimulating than romantic adventure. It is the most revealing study of the human soul that I have ever read."
--The Christian Century

"An absorbing book that stands alone in frankness and plain honesty...Its place among the classics of autobiography cannot be in doubt."
--The New Statesman

"An amazingly frank self-revelation of the greatest and humblest modern man."
--The Annals

"It is...only by reading the whole long and detailed day-by-day record that readers can sense the magic of Gandhi's being and discover him fully."
--Saturday Review

"(Gandhi's) autobiography remains invaluable for its account of the shaping of a new path to collective resistance to injustice."
--From the foreword by Sissela Bok

About the Author:

Mohandas K Gandhi was born in 1869 to Hindu parents. He studied law in London and was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1891. He worked to improve the rights of immigrant Indians in South Africa, returning to India in 1915 to take up the struggle for independence from Britain. Gandhi never wavered in his belief in non-violent protest and Independence, in 1947, was not a military victory but a triumph of human will. In January 1948 Gandhi assassinated as he walked to take evening prayers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0141186860
• ISBN 13: 9780141186863
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464