Author: Simon Heffer
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571288366
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
'A brilliant and scholarly biography of an extraordinary figure.' Lord Blake, Country Life 'A fresh, engaging, conscientious account of one of the great Victorians.' Michael Foot, London Review of Books 'A thorough and convincing account of 'the sage''. Peter Ackroyd, Times Thomas Carlyle was the most influential man of letters of his day, and his vivid account of the French Revolution remains one of the classic histories. Even George Eliot, no admirer, wrote: 'It is an idle question to ask whether his books will be read a century hence; if they were all burnt as the grandest of Suttes on his funeral pyre, it would only be like cutting down an oak after its acorns have sown a forest.' Simon Heffer draws upon previously unavailable papers to reassess a magnificent, defiant and often lonely individualist whose idiosyncratic and passionate books brought him universal fame.
Moral Desperado
Author: Simon Heffer
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571288366
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
'A brilliant and scholarly biography of an extraordinary figure.' Lord Blake, Country Life 'A fresh, engaging, conscientious account of one of the great Victorians.' Michael Foot, London Review of Books 'A thorough and convincing account of 'the sage''. Peter Ackroyd, Times Thomas Carlyle was the most influential man of letters of his day, and his vivid account of the French Revolution remains one of the classic histories. Even George Eliot, no admirer, wrote: 'It is an idle question to ask whether his books will be read a century hence; if they were all burnt as the grandest of Suttes on his funeral pyre, it would only be like cutting down an oak after its acorns have sown a forest.' Simon Heffer draws upon previously unavailable papers to reassess a magnificent, defiant and often lonely individualist whose idiosyncratic and passionate books brought him universal fame.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571288366
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
'A brilliant and scholarly biography of an extraordinary figure.' Lord Blake, Country Life 'A fresh, engaging, conscientious account of one of the great Victorians.' Michael Foot, London Review of Books 'A thorough and convincing account of 'the sage''. Peter Ackroyd, Times Thomas Carlyle was the most influential man of letters of his day, and his vivid account of the French Revolution remains one of the classic histories. Even George Eliot, no admirer, wrote: 'It is an idle question to ask whether his books will be read a century hence; if they were all burnt as the grandest of Suttes on his funeral pyre, it would only be like cutting down an oak after its acorns have sown a forest.' Simon Heffer draws upon previously unavailable papers to reassess a magnificent, defiant and often lonely individualist whose idiosyncratic and passionate books brought him universal fame.
Life of Carlyle
Author: David Alec Wilson
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Publisher:
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Category : Heroes
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Publisher:
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Category : Heroes
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The Life of Friedrich Schiller
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Publisher:
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Category : German drama
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Publisher:
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Category : German drama
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Jane Welsh Carlyle and Her Victorian World
Author: Kathy Chamberlain
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1468314211
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
“Intelligent, witty, thoroughly engaging . . . the most fascinating biography I have read in years.” —The Minneapolis Star Tribune She was one of the all-time great letter writers, according to Virginia Woolf, but as the wife of Victorian literary celebrity Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle has been much overlooked. In this “hugely satisfying” new biography (The Spectator), Kathy Chamberlain brings Jane out of her husband’s shadow, focusing on Carlyle as a remarkable woman and writer in her own right. Caught between her own literary aspirations and Victorian society’s oppression of women, Jane Welsh Carlyle hoped to move beyond domestic life and become a respected published writer. As she and her husband moved in exclusive London literary circles, mingling with noted authors, poets, and European revolutionaries, Carlyle created and reported to her correspondents on her rich, rewarding life in her Chelsea home—until her husband’s infatuation with a wealthy, imposing aristocratic society hostess threw her life into chaos. Through dedicated research and unparalleled access to Jane Welsh Carlyle’s private correspondence, Chamberlain presents an elegant portrait of an extraordinary woman. “Sparkles with the wit and intelligence of the subject herself . . . If you think, as I originally did, that you have no particular interest in the life of Jane Carlyle, read this—you will be captivated.” —Elizabeth Strout, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lucy by the Sea “Compelling . . . illuminates the outwardly decorous but often inwardly tempestuous lives of Victorian women.” —The New Yorker “Chamberlain, Jane’s latest and incomparably best biographer . . . gives us, at last, a Jane Carlyle who seems thrillingly alive.” —Christian Science Monitor
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1468314211
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
“Intelligent, witty, thoroughly engaging . . . the most fascinating biography I have read in years.” —The Minneapolis Star Tribune She was one of the all-time great letter writers, according to Virginia Woolf, but as the wife of Victorian literary celebrity Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle has been much overlooked. In this “hugely satisfying” new biography (The Spectator), Kathy Chamberlain brings Jane out of her husband’s shadow, focusing on Carlyle as a remarkable woman and writer in her own right. Caught between her own literary aspirations and Victorian society’s oppression of women, Jane Welsh Carlyle hoped to move beyond domestic life and become a respected published writer. As she and her husband moved in exclusive London literary circles, mingling with noted authors, poets, and European revolutionaries, Carlyle created and reported to her correspondents on her rich, rewarding life in her Chelsea home—until her husband’s infatuation with a wealthy, imposing aristocratic society hostess threw her life into chaos. Through dedicated research and unparalleled access to Jane Welsh Carlyle’s private correspondence, Chamberlain presents an elegant portrait of an extraordinary woman. “Sparkles with the wit and intelligence of the subject herself . . . If you think, as I originally did, that you have no particular interest in the life of Jane Carlyle, read this—you will be captivated.” —Elizabeth Strout, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lucy by the Sea “Compelling . . . illuminates the outwardly decorous but often inwardly tempestuous lives of Victorian women.” —The New Yorker “Chamberlain, Jane’s latest and incomparably best biographer . . . gives us, at last, a Jane Carlyle who seems thrillingly alive.” —Christian Science Monitor
Thomas Carlyle
Author: James Anthony Froude
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Life of Robert Burns
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Publisher: New York : Sheldon
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Sheldon
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The Carlyles at Home
Author: Thea Holme
Publisher: Persephone Books
ISBN: 9781903155226
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Describes Thomas and Jane Carlyle's life together at 5 (now 24) Cheyne Row, Chelsea.
Publisher: Persephone Books
ISBN: 9781903155226
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Describes Thomas and Jane Carlyle's life together at 5 (now 24) Cheyne Row, Chelsea.
Essay on Burns
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Carlyle Reader
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521278737
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521278737
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description