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Moral Desperado: A Life of Thomas Carlyle

Written by: Simon Heffer


Thomas Carlyle was the most influential man of letters of his day, and his vivid account of the French Revolution remains one of the classic histories of all time. Even George Eliot, no admirer, wrote: "It is an idle question to ask whether his books will be read a century hence; if they were all burnt as the grandest of Suuttes on his funeral pyre, it would only be like cutting down an oak after its acorns have sown a forest".

In this absorbing portrait Simon Heffer uses newly available material to reassess a magnificent, defiant and often lonely individualist whose idiosyncratic and passionate books brought him universal fame. He examines Carlyle's own works, his influence on Victorian culture and ideas, and his relationship with the leading thinkers and writers of the day - from John Stuart Mill and Dickens to Ruskin, Browning and Emerson.

 

MORAL DESPERADO: A LIFE OF THOMAS CARLYLE was first published on 23rd March 1995 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

Other publications by Simon Heffer



Staring at God

Vaughan Williams

Nor Shall My Sword

Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell

Power and Place: the political consequences of King Edward VII

Strictly English

The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914

High Minds

The Great British Speeches: A Stirring Anthology of Speeches from Every Period of British History
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