On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History

Thomas Carlyle

• Essays
• Book language: English
• 195 pages

On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History is a series of lectures by Thomas Carlyle on great figures and the human impulse to revere them. Across examples from Odin and Muhammad to Dante, Shakespeare, Luther, Cromwell, and Napoleon, Carlyle explores how heroes shape history. Listen for its forceful prose and influential reflections on leadership, belief, and historical change.

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