Carlyle: Selected Writings (Penguin Classics)

By Thomas Carlyle

Book Overview

As a prophet and preacher, Carlyle was an important and controversial figure in nineteenth-century thought. Carlyle is best known for his impressionistic history of the French Revolution and for his essays proclaiming the virtues of strong, heroic leadership. But for his contemporaries Carlyle's was also a prophetic voice. John Stuart Mill, a formidable political adversary, acknowledged that Carlyle 'saw things long before me', while for Charles Dickens he was simply 'the man who knows everything'.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140430652
• ISBN13: 9780140430653
• Release Date: November 1980
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.8"

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