Carlyle, Thomas
SARTOR RESARTUS , THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF HERR TEUFELSDROCKH and HEROES AND HERO-WORSHIP
1885: Boston. Estes & Lauriat. . . Hardcover. One-half brown leather, marbled boards, extensive gold decorations on leather spine, five raised bands, all edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Two frontispiece portraits on heavy paper with tissue guards. 8" Tall. 461 pages. There are three books of SARTOR RESARTUS plus an appendix , "Testimonies of Authors" which includes: I: Highest Class, Bookseller's Taster; II: Critic of the Sun; III: North-American Reviewer; and IV: New England Editors. These are followed by ON HEROES, HERO-WORSHIP,AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY (1840) which is a series of Lectures on Heroes: The Hero as Divinity (Odin, Paganism: Scandinavian Mythology) ; The Hero as Prophet ( Mohamet: Islam) ; The Hero as Poet (Dante: Shakespeare) ; The Hero as Priest (Luther; Reformation: Knox; Puritanism) ; The Hero as Man of Letters (Johnson, Rousseau, Burns) ; The Hero as King (Cromwell, Napoleon: Modern Revolutionism) . This is a volume in The Sterling Edition of Carlyle's Complete Works, printed by University Press: John Wilson & Sons, Cambridge. .. age-browning throughout otherwise clean contents.. . ISBN Number:. Keywords:[Fine Binding;]
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