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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: A HISTORY

THOMAS CARLYLE
(1795-1881)

A Note on the Author of "The French Revolution"

The legend of Thomas Carlyle as a truculent husband and a misanthropic genius is a persistent historic libel which is gradually being revised to do justice to the qualities of his mind and character. His ghastly experience with the manuscript of The French Revolution was in itself enough to embitter his outlook on life. Having finished the first volume of his work, he entrusted the only copy of the manuscript to J. S. Mill for comment and annotation. By an accident, it was burned. Carlyle thereupon set to work and rewrote the entire history, achieving what he described as a book that came "direct and flamingly from the heart" The world has since concurred in this estimate of The French Revolution.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Essay on Goethe's "Faust" (1822)
Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship" (Translation) (1824)
The Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825)
Sartor Resartus (1833)
The French Revolution (1837)
Chartism (1839)
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1841)
Past and Present (1843)
Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches (1845)
Latter-day Pamphlets (1850)
Life of Sterling (1851)
History of Friedrich the Second, Called Frederick the Great (1858-1865)
Life of Robert Burns (1859)
The Early Kings of Norway (1875)
Reminiscences (1881)
Letters and Memorials (1883)

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