Bertrand Russell's life story contains episodes more exciting than most novels, details more intimate than most exposés, and more intensity of emotion - sexual, spiritual, and intellectual - than most fiction writers would dare ascribe to a single hero. Here is the intimate self-portrait - and perhaps the first real insight into the enigma of the aristocratic Englishman who has been heralded as "a Genius-Saint" and "the greatest heretic and immoralist of our age!"