Thomas Carlyle
A Biography| By: | Fred Kaplan |
| Publisher: | Independent Publishers Group (Chicago Review Press) |
| Print ISBN: | 9781480409804 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781480409873 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist: A portrait of the Victorian writer and historian Thomas Carlyle. A Pulitzer finalist that draws upon years of research and unpublished letters,?Thomas Carlyle?examines the life of the Victorian genius. Carlyle was the author of?Sartor Resartus?and?The French Revolution: A History, and he possessed one of literature?s most flamboyant prose styles. Despite a childhood beset by anxiety and illness, Carlyle was indefatigable in his literary production. Fred Kaplan delves into the author?s intense personal life, which includes his turbulent marriage to author Jane Baillie Welsh and his disillusionment with religion. Kaplan is a devoted and sensitive explicator, vividly resurrecting both Carlyle and his Victorian setting.