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"No novelist has made his creations live for us more thoroughly than Carlyle has made the men of the French Revolution," observed George Eliot. In his company, the scenes of the Revolution are plainly visible, and the pages of this book offer a walk through the streets of eighteenth-century Paris with a well-informed guide. This abridged edition represents the best introduction to Carlyle's masterpiece for students and history buffs.
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Carlyle’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the non-fiction works and other texts
* ALL the translated German fictional works, with individual contents tables
* Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Many rare works not available in other collections, including THE DIAMOND NECKLACE, MEMOIRS OF MIRABEAU and SAMUEL JOHNSON
* Includes Carlyle’s letters - spend hours exploring the author’s personal correspondence
* Carlyle’s memoir book of REMINISCENCES — first time in digital print
* Features a bonus biography — discover Carlyle’s literary life
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
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CONTENTS:
The Translations
WILHELM MEISTER’S APPRENTICESHIP
GERMAN ROMANCE: SPECIMENS OF ITS CHIEF AUTHORS
The Biographies
LIFE OF FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
MEMOIRS OF MIRABEAU
LIFE OF JOHN STERLING
LIFE OF ROBERT BURNS
HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH II OF PRUSSIA
Other Non-Fiction Works
SARTOR RESARTUS
THE DIAMOND NECKLACE
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. A HISTORY
CHARTISM
ON HEROES, HERO-WORSHIP, AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY
PAST AND PRESENT
OCCASIONAL DISCOURSE ON THE NEGRO QUESTION
LATTER-DAY PAMPHLETS
SAMUEL JOHNSON
SHOOTING NIAGARA: AND AFTER?
THE EARLY KINGS OF NORWAY
ON THE CHOICE OF BOOKS
SHALL TURKEY LIVE OR DIE?
MOHAMMED AND MOHAMMEDANISM
The Poetry
LIST OF POEMS
The Memoirs
REMINISCENCES
The Letters
THE CORRESPONDENCE OF THOMAS CARLYLE AND RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The Biography
THOMAS CARLYLE by G. K. Chesterton and J. E. Hodder Williams
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This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition, complete and unabridged, is unavailable anywhere else.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
In eight volumes, The Strouse Edition will provide the texts of Carlyle's major works edited for the first time to contemporary scholarly standards. For the general reader, its detailed introductions and annotations will offer insight into the author's thought and a reconstruction of the diverse and often arcane Carlylean sources.
Carlyle was one of the great figures of his age: thunderous, passionate, irascible, sceptical and idealistic. This selection is representative of all stages of Carlyle's career, and includes 'Sign of the Times', his essay against the mechanization of the age and the rise of the machines; the whole of 'Chartism'; and extracts from The French Revolution, Heroes and Hero-Worship, Sartor Resartus, Past and Present, as well as other pieces. The book also includes an introduction and notes by Alan Shelston.
Thomas Carlyle was born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, in 1795. Intended by his family to become a Presbyterian minister, he was influenced by the Scottish Enlightenment while at the University of Edinburgh and became a teacher instead. He later turned to literary work, publishing a life of Schiller and translations of Goethe in the 1820s. His first truly successful book was The French Revolution, which was followed by many others. He died in 1881.
Alan Shelston was Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Manchester until retirement in 2002. He has edited a number of Gaskell's works including The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1975) and North and South (2005), and was joint editor with John Chapple of The Further Letters of Mrs Gaskell (2000). He has published a selection of Hardy's poetry and written on a number of nineteen century authors including Dickens and Henry James.