Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Reproduction of the original: The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) by John Morley

My Early Life is an autobiography of Winston Churchill from his birth in 1874 up to approximately 1902. The book begins by describing his childhood and schooldays, providing context for the following accounts. A significant portion of the book covers his experiences in the Second Boer War of 1899-1902. It also includes descriptions of other campaigns he had taken part in as a British Army officer, such as the Mahdist War in the Sudan and the military campaign by the British army on the North West Frontier between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

This is the first English translation of Le Roman social en Angleterre by Louis Cazamian, which is widely recognized as the classic survey of Victorian social fiction. Starting from the eighteenth century, Cazamian traces the ways in which rationalism and romanticism intertwined and competed, particularly in relation to radical political philosophy. He shows how industrialization polarized England, setting the industrial bourgeoisie in the van of progress in the first decades of the nineteenth century, until their political and economic triumph stirred up a passionate reaction against them. This reaction propelled novelists such as Charles Dickens who lies at the centre of his discussion. For this translation Martin Fido has provided a substantial foreword, and has revised and completed the bibliographical references and corrected the footnotes to assist the present-day reader.