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The French Revolution
'It is I think the most radical Book that has been written in these late centuries . . . and will give pleasure and displeasure, one may expect, to almost all classes of persons.' …
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
Thomas Carlyle published a series of lectures titled "On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History" in 1841. Carlyle contends that heroes are crucial to human advancement and …
Past and Present
Thomas Carlyle's Past and Present (1843) was a prophetic warning of impending disaster for mid-Victorian Britain that was delivered in what the author described as a 'miraculous …
The Works of Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) was one of the most influential authors of the nineteenth century. Eagerly studied at the highest level of intellectual society, his satirical essays and …
Sartor Resartus
This extraordinary work is at one and the same time an account of a personal spiritual crisis and a hilarious spoof on academic learning, early Victorian values and materialism. …
Selected Writings
The most important writings by the great and controversial Victorian polemicist.Carlyle was one of the great figures of his age: thunderous, passionate, irascible, sceptical and …
History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great
THOMAS CARLYLE ON HEROES, HERO-WORSHIP A
On Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History
Based on a series of lectures delivered in 1840, Thomas Carlyle's On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History considers the creation of heroes and the ways they exert heroic …