The complete online text of Autobiography and Selected Essays by Thomas Huxley.

The English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) is most famous as "Darwin's bulldog," that is, as the man who led the fight for the acceptance of Darwin's theory of evolution. On May 4, 1825, T. H. Huxley was born at Ealing, the seventh child of Ge...

Thomas Henry Huxley conducted research in comparative anatomy and biology. His efforts to identify physiological and biological links between vertebrates and invertebrates pioneered the field of evolutionary biology. Although a prolific publisher of scie...

Thomas Henry Huxley conducted research in comparative anatomy and biology. His efforts to identify physiological and biological links between vertebrates and invertebrates pioneered the field of evolutionary biology. Although a prolific publisher of scie...

Viacheslav Ivanov. Selected Essays. Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Ed. and with an introduction by Michael Wachtel. Robert Bird, trans. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2001. xx, 329 pp. Notes. Bibliography of Works in English by Viacheslav Ivanov. Index. $99.95, cloth. Nested between...

Autobiography is a protean genre: it covers so many forms and styles. When narrating one's life, the narrator has to choose what he or she considers to be relevant and decisive. Aside from the differences on what is fundamental in a life, the...