On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History: Volume 1 (The Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle)

by ThomasCarlyle (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  1993

  $99.40

  In his 1840 lectures on heroes, Thomas Carlyle, Victorian essayist and social critic, championed the importance of the individual in history. Eventually translated into fifteen languages, this work of history, comparative religion, and literature is the one of the influential statement of a man who came to be thought of as a secular prophet.