This volume gathers Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus, a philosophical satire centred on a fictional German professor and his ideas about clothes and society, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, a series of lectures on how great figures have been revered. Together they offer stimulating reflections on belief, history, and human character.
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EVERYMAN’S LIBRARY Founded 1906 by J. M. Dent (d. 1926) Edited by Ernest Rhys (d. 1946) ESSAYS & BELLES-LETTRES SARTOR RESARTUS and ON HEROES BY THOMAS CARLYLE · INTRODUCTION BY PROFESSOR W. H. HUDSON THOMAS CARLYLE, born in 1795 at Ecclefechan, the son of a stonemason. Educated at Edinburgh University. Schoolmaster for a short time, but decided on a literary career, visiting Paris and
London. Retired in 1828 to Dumfriesshire to write. In 1834 moved to Cheyne Row, Chelsea, and died there in 1881. SARTOR RESARTUS ON HEROES HERO WORSHIP THOMAS CARLYLE
LONDON: J. M. DENT & SONS LTD. NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO. INC. All rights reserved Made in Great Britain at The Temple Press Letchworth for J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. Aldine House Bedford St. London First published in this edition 1908 Last reprinted 1948
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