On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History
Author : Thomas Carlyle
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Page : 396 pages
File Size : 30,75 MB
Release : 1852
Category : Hero worship
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Author : Thomas Carlyle
Publisher :
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 30,75 MB
Release : 1852
Category : Hero worship
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Author : Thomas Carlyle
Publisher :
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 36,77 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Authors, German
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Author : Thomas Carlyle
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 46,59 MB
Release : 1984-05-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780521278737
Author : Kathy Chamberlain
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 38,98 MB
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1468314211
“Intelligent, witty, thoroughly engaging . . . the most fascinating biography I have read in years.” —The Minneapolis Star Tribune She was one of the all-time great letter writers, according to Virginia Woolf, but as the wife of Victorian literary celebrity Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle has been much overlooked. In this “hugely satisfying” new biography (The Spectator), Kathy Chamberlain brings Jane out of her husband’s shadow, focusing on Carlyle as a remarkable woman and writer in her own right. Caught between her own literary aspirations and Victorian society’s oppression of women, Jane Welsh Carlyle hoped to move beyond domestic life and become a respected published writer. As she and her husband moved in exclusive London literary circles, mingling with noted authors, poets, and European revolutionaries, Carlyle created and reported to her correspondents on her rich, rewarding life in her Chelsea home—until her husband’s infatuation with a wealthy, imposing aristocratic society hostess threw her life into chaos. Through dedicated research and unparalleled access to Jane Welsh Carlyle’s private correspondence, Chamberlain presents an elegant portrait of an extraordinary woman. “Sparkles with the wit and intelligence of the subject herself . . . If you think, as I originally did, that you have no particular interest in the life of Jane Carlyle, read this—you will be captivated.” —Elizabeth Strout, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lucy by the Sea “Compelling . . . illuminates the outwardly decorous but often inwardly tempestuous lives of Victorian women.” —The New Yorker “Chamberlain, Jane’s latest and incomparably best biographer . . . gives us, at last, a Jane Carlyle who seems thrillingly alive.” —Christian Science Monitor
Author : Carlyle
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Page : 120 pages
File Size : 22,7 MB
Release : 1897
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Author : Stella Rimington
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 21,18 MB
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1408841061
CIA agent Miles Brookhaven was attacked in a souk while infiltrating rebel groups in the area. No one was certain if his cover had been blown or if the act was just an arbitrary attack on Westerners. Months later, the incident remains a mystery. Now, Liz Carlyle and her Counter Terrorism unit in MI5 have been charged with the task of observing the international under-the-counter arms trade. With the Arabic region in such a volatile state, British Intelligence forces have become increasing concerned that extremist Al-Qaeda jihadis are building their power base, ready to launch another attack. As the pressure mounts, Liz and her team must intercept illegal weapons before they get into the wrong hands. But when MI5 learns that the source of the arms deals is located in Western Europe, Liz finds herself on a manhunt that leads her to Paris, to Berlin and into her own long-forgotten past. A past buried so deep that she thought it would never resurface . . . THE DEVIL'S BARGAIN, the brand-new thriller from Stella Rimington, is out now.
Author : Arlene James
Publisher : Harlequin Treasury-Silhouette Romance 90s
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 37,27 MB
Release : 2000-12-25
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ISBN : 9780373194933
The Mesmerizing Mr. Carlyle by Arlene James released on Dec 25, 2000 is available now for purchase.
Author : Thomas Carlyle
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 36,95 MB
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0241205492
The most important writings by the great and controversial Victorian polemicist. 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.
Author : Thomas Carlyle
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Page : 790 pages
File Size : 15,37 MB
Release : 1870
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Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Hesperus Press
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 11,10 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781843910558
Carlyle’s House and Other Sketches marks the first publication of one of Virginia Woolf’s very earliest notebooks. Recently unearthed from a collection of private papers, it contains a series of six striking and semi–autobiographical sketches, each transcribed and edited by Dr. David Bradshaw. From the cold formality of London town–houses with their rows of austere portraits, to the dull chaos of the academic’s abode, and the eccentric spinster’s Hampstead home, Virginia Woolf paints a series of portraits of everyday life, capturing character and setting in exquisite detail. Experimental in style, and heralding the later masterpieces Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, this early notebook is quintessential Woolf.