Thomas Carlyle: 121 books

What trait defines a hero? For Carlyle, it’s absolute sincerity, firm belief in one’s principles, and an inherent spark of the Divine. In this compelling series of lectures, delivered in 1840, Carlyle uses various examples of great men throughout history—divided into six categories and including Dante, Odin, Luther, and Napoleon, among others—to convey his notion of a hero.

A groundbreaking work of history (and, incidentally, the primary resource for Charles Dickens’s novel A Tale of Two Cities) Carlyle’s French Revolution explains momentous historical change as resulting from the leadership of heroic individuals. The immediacy of Carlyle’s prose—in which past events are often recounted in the present tense—makes for riveting reading.

A fascinating look at some of the early Viking kings, such as Óláfr Tryggvason (Olaf the First), and Knut den Mektige (Canute the Great). Written by famed historian Thomas Carlyle.

Sartor Resartus was written as a fictitious commentary on the writings of an imaginary German thinker named Diogenes Teufelsdröckh, author of Clothes: their Origin and Influence. Reviewing this work is a curmudgeonly, skeptical English Reviewer, referred to simply as “Editor.” This eccentric...

Distinguished critic and essayist Thomas Carlyle turns his keen intellect to a range of subjects in this collection of eleven essays. Volume One contains studies of Goethe, Boswell’s Life of Johnson, Diderot, the death of Edward Irving, and more.

On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History is a book by Thomas Carlyle, published with James Fraser, London, in 1841. It is a collection of six lectures given in May 1840. (5 May) The Hero as Divinity. Odin. Paganism: Scandinavian Mythology (8 May) The Hero as Prophet. Muhammad:...

These essays, or “pamphlets,” published in 1850, are a vehement denunciation of what Thomas Carlyle believed to be the political, social, and religious injustices of the era. The collection’s best known essay is “Hudson’s Statue,” an attack on plans to erect a monument in honor of the bankrupted financier and “railway king” George Hudson.

Distinguished critic and essayist Thomas Carlyle turns his keen intellect to a range of subjects in this collection of nine essays. This second volume includes “The Diamond Necklace,” a fiction piece about Marie Antoinette’s famous necklace; “Parliamentary History of the French Revolution,” and “The Opera,” among other selected pieces.

El pensamiento de Thomas Carlyle, historiador y ensayista británico, es contrario al materialismo y al racionalismo, pero también al capitalismo. En esta obra expone su ideología: el discurrir de la historia obedece a la fuerza creativa de individualidades excepcionales, es decir, los héroes,...

History of Friedrich II of Prussia - Volume 14 by Thomas Carlyle libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!

This 1915 edition of Carlyle’s essays collects “Boswell’s Life of Johnson,” “On History,” “Two Hundred and Fifty Years Ago,” “Chartism,” “The Opera,” “Petition on the Copyright Bill,” and six others.

With England in the grip of a serious economic downturn, Carlyle in Past and Present (1843) looked to the supposed virtues of the past in order to illustrate how unfettered capitalism had brought the country to the brink of ruin, hoping in this way to spark a moral no less than economic resurgence.

Published in 1836, this pioneering mix of fiction and fact had a great influence on later writers despite having met with little success in its own time. In the novel, a nameless editor presents the life and work of a fictional German philosopher named Diogenes Teufelsdröckh who writes on the subject...

Here is Carlyle's new poem, his Iliad of English woes, to follow his poem on France, entitled the History of the French Revolution. In its first aspect it is a political tract, and since Burke, since Milton, we have had nothing to compare with it. It grapples honestly with the facts lying before all...