Living My Life

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

Author: Emma Goldman
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 04/01/2006
Pages: 672
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.30d
ISBN13: 9780142437858
ISBN10: 0142437859
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Political
- Political Science | Political Ideologies | Anarchism
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs

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.