Sartor Resartus
Title | Sartor Resartus PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Carlyle |
Publisher | Canongate Books |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2010-07-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1847674674 |
This extraordinary work is at one and the same time an account of a personal spiritual crisis and a hilarious spoof on academic learning, early Victorian values and materialism. In Sartor Resartus (‘the tailor retailored’) a fictitious editor retells the theories of an equally fictitious German professor who has come to the conclusion that human institutions and morals are only clothes to shield us from nothingness, clothes that can be changed as the whims of the age or fashion dictate. This radically deconstructive vision reveals the very highest symbols of belief for what they are – merely symbols. How to believe in anything after such an insight is a question even more acute today than it was in Carlyle’s time, when he first asked it in this masterpiece of invention, parody and profound laughter. This Canongate Classics edition incorporates illustrations by Edmund Sullivan, reproduced as they appeared in the 1898 edition of the text. Also included is the notable Emerson preface to the original American edition and an incisive, specially commissioned introduction from Alasdair Gray. ‘The character of his influences is best seen in the fact that many of the men who have least agreement with his opinions are those to whom the reading of Sartor Resartus was an epoch in the history of their minds.’ George Eliot
Sartor Resartus ...
Title | Sartor Resartus ... PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Carlyle |
Publisher | |
Pages | 142 |
Release | 1844 |
Genre | Clothing and dress |
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The Works of Thomas Carlyle: Sartor resartus
Title | The Works of Thomas Carlyle: Sartor resartus PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Carlyle |
Publisher | |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 1896 |
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On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History
Title | On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Carlyle |
Publisher | |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 1852 |
Genre | Hero worship |
ISBN |
Sartor Resartus
Title | Sartor Resartus PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Carlyle |
Publisher | CreateSpace |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2014-04-21 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9781499174038 |
The Works of Thomas Carlyle in 30 volumes. Volume 1 contains: Sartor Resartus. As this collection has been produced from existing library editions, printings may contain imperfections present in the original artifacts.
The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle: Sartor resartus (1831). Lectures on heroes (1840)
Title | The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle: Sartor resartus (1831). Lectures on heroes (1840) PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Carlyle |
Publisher | |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 1871 |
Genre | Chartism |
ISBN |
The Works of Thomas Carlyle: Sartor resartus
Title | The Works of Thomas Carlyle: Sartor resartus PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Carlyle |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1969 |
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