This collection represents every stage of his career, including selections from his masterpiece The French Revolution, Heroes and Hero-Worship, Signs of the Times and Chartism.
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 his retirement in 2002.
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