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1831 and 1841. Scottish-born British historian and essayist who was a leading figure in the Victorian era. Carlyle's Sartor Resartus was a disguised spiritual autobiography, in which he faces the tendencies to intellectual skepticism and dedicates himself to a life of spiritual affirmation. The first half of the book is about the ideas of a self-made philosopher who believes everything can be explained in terms of clothes. Carlyle also undertook several series of lectures, of which the most significant was On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History. See other works by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. ... Read more

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Edited by Alexander Carlyle.This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1909 edition by John Lane, London. ... Read more

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Profound moral earnestness, the spiritual vision of a poet, and a magnificent gift of literary expression are the qualities by which Carlyle lives in the world's history.The measure of his greatness as ethical teacher and preacher is the depth of his impress, not only on his own time, but on all succeeding time.To a democratic age he cried the doctrine of moral and intellectual aristocracy; in a day when materialism promised to sweep everything before it he proclaimed the rights of the spirit.His influence is not grounded on a transient popularity; it is profound and lasting.It has permeated the English-speaking people.

Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish peasant who became one of the great names of English literature.The story of that transformation and achievement has been told and retold by many a brilliant writer during the generation which has elapsed since Carlyle's death.

No record of personal development and literary accomplishment is more fascinating.Yet it is not the aim of this book to present one more biography of Carlyle.It is rather to exhibit, as far as possible in Carlyle's own words, the working of his mind.His books are intensely, supremely personal.They review his own struggles, his slowly-won mastery over himself and his circumstances, his entire theory of human life and conduct.With a vividness almost if not quite unrivaled in the whole history of literature, they describe his ancestry and early environment, his unsystematic education, his painful quest of a career, and the spiritual conflicts by which he came to an ultimate command of himself.This main battle once won, he perfected, between the ages of thirty and thirty-five, his theory of biography and history.It remained essentially unchanged throughout the rest of his long life. ... Read more

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1850. Scottish-born British historian and essayist who was a leading figure in the Victorian era. Partial Contents: Life of John Sterling; and Latter-Day Pamphlets. See other works by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. ... Read more

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Contains Volumes One and Two. ... Read more

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Thomas Carlyle, renowned nineteenth-century essayist and social critic, came to be thought of as a secular prophet by many of his readers and as the "undoubted head of English letters" by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Historical Essays brings together Carlyle's essays on history and historical subjects in a fully annotated modern edition for the first time. These essays, which were originally collected in Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, span Carlyle's career from 1830 to 1875 and represent a major facet of his writings. This edition uses all the extant authoritative versions of the essays to create an accurate critical text and includes a mine of lucidly presented information to enhance readers' understanding of Carlyle's densely allusive prose.
The collection includes essays on the French Revolution, Cromwell, Frederick the Great, and medieval Scandinavia. It also includes such essential pieces as "On History," "On History Again," "Count Cagliostro," and "The Diamond Necklace." Together the essays show Carlyle positioning himself in relation to the new Romantic historiography but not yet ready to adopt the strictures of modern scientific history. They also exhibit his talent for analyzing the historical significance of seemingly minor events. He describes a plot to steal a diamond necklace in which Marie Antoinette became implicated, a visit of Whig sympathizers to the National Assembly during the French Revolution, and the kidnapping of two fifteenth-century German princes, one of whose descendents was Carlyle's contemporary Prince Albert.
This volume, the third of the eight-volume Strouse Edition of Carlyle's works, includes a historical introduction and illustrations along with complete textual apparatus. ... Read more

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“One never tires of reading and rereading the correspondence of interesting people, and there is not doubt that the Carlyles were, and remain through their letters, one of the most interesting couples who ever lived. That their correspondence deserved to be preserved and printed was never in doubt; that is being brought out in so handsome an edition as that of the Duke-Edinburgh one is something that calls for celebration.”—Michael Timko, Books in Scotland ... Read more

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1896 edition by Chapman and Hall, Limited, London. ... Read more