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Moral Desperado: The Life Of Thomas Carlyle

Moral Desperado: The Life Of Thomas Carlyle

by SimonHeffer (Author)

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    Paperback 1996

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Synopsis

In this major new biography of the Victorian writer and prophet,Simon Heffer reassesses and analyses all Carlyle's main works and essays,his influence on Victorian culture and ideas,and his relationship with the leading literary figures of his day-Dickens,Tennyson,Browning and Matthew Arnold.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 420
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Published: 06 May 1996
ISBN 10: 1857994469
ISBN 13: 9781857994469
Book Overview: 'Without understanding Carlyle one cannot properly understand the Victorian era And without understanding that era we cannot understand where,culturally, We have come from.No one from his times cries out for rediscovery and, reappraisal as urgently as he does' Simon Heffer

Author Bio
Simon Heffer was born in 1960 and educated at King Edward VI School, Chelmsford, and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he read English. He is now a political columnist with the Daily Mail and has previously been political editor of The Spectator and deputy editor of the Daily Telegraph.