The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter
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Across three volumes, Darwin’s life emerges through autobiography and correspondence, linking personal recollection with the work and reception of his scientific books. Writing to Hooker, he discusses the quick printing of a new edition and his irritation at a reviewer’s charge that he had borrowed from Pouchet. By 1876, he could call his own book’s opening chapters unreadable and its later ones dull while still arguing that its findings mattered.
