{"product_id":"selected-writings-1","title":"Selected Writings","description":"Used paperback in Good condition. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe most important writings by the great and controversial Victorian polemicist.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarlyle was one of the great figures of his age: thunderous passionate irascible sceptical and idealistic. This selection is representative of all stages of Carlyle's career and includes 'Sign of the Times' his essay against the mechanization of the age and the rise of the machines; the whole of 'Chartism'; and extracts from \u003ci\u003eThe French Revolution \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeroes and Hero-Worship\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSartor Resartus\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePast and Present\u003c\/i\u003e as well as other pieces. The book also includes an introduction and notes by Alan Shelston. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Carlyle was born in Dumfriesshire Scotland in 1795. Intended by his family to become a Presbyterian minister he was influenced by the Scottish Enlightenment while at the University of Edinburgh and became a teacher instead. He later turned to literary work publishing a life of Schiller and translations of Goethe in the 1820s. His first truly successful book was \u003ci\u003eThe French Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e which was followed by many others. He died in 1881. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlan Shelston was Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Manchester until retirement in 2002. He has edited a number of Gaskell's works including \u003ci\u003eThe Life of Charlotte Bronte\u003c\/i\u003e (1975) and \u003ci\u003eNorth and South \u003c\/i\u003e(2005) and was joint editor with John Chapple of \u003ci\u003eThe Further Letters of Mrs Gaskell\u003c\/i\u003e (2000). He has published a selection of Hardy's poetry and written on a number of nineteen century authors including Dickens and Henry James.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 0141396768\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 0141396768\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carlyle, Thomas","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":53951836651803,"sku":"mon0000801148","price":16.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/4004\/3291\/files\/8769653482238.jpg?v=1789521156","url":"https:\/\/bookalley.com\/products\/selected-writings-1","provider":"Book Alley","version":"1.0","type":"link"}