Product Description

This selection is representative of all stages of Carlyle's career, rather than a "best of" volume. It includes the whole of "Chartism" and chapters from "Sartor Resartus", the "French Revolution", "Heroes and Hero-Worship", "Past and Present" and "The History of Frederick the Great".

Product Details

• Published on: 2001-10-25
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Customer Reviews

genius
Carlyle's 'Sartor Resartus' is the greatest neglected book in cultural history, endlessly complex, subtle, always self-critical, ironic, mysterious, beautiful and powerful. Not a book to read through from beginning to end, but one to dip into, explore, examine from different angles. As in the book itself, the so-called Editor attempts to piece together the shards of the philosopher-hero Teufelsdrockh's identity, so the reader needs to plunge into, striking into its magical maze of ideas