Living My Life

The classic memoir of revolution & uncompromising freedom

Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control & 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, & 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, & more. Sounding a call still heard today, Living My Life is a riveting account of political ferment & 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 & her extraordinary era