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Title: Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History

Author: Thomas Carlyle

Contributor: W. H. Hudson

Release Date: February 15, 2007 [EBook #20585]

Language: English

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EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY

Founded 1906 by J. M. Dent (d. 1926)
Edited by Ernest Rhys (d. 1946)

ESSAYS & BELLES-LETTRES

SARTOR RESARTUS _and_ ON HEROES

BY THOMAS CARLYLE . INTRODUCTION

BY PROFESSOR W. H. HUDSON

THOMAS CARLYLE, born in 1795 at Ecclefechan, the son of a
stonemason. Educated at Edinburgh University. Schoolmaster for
a short time, but decided on a literary career, visiting Paris
and London. Retired in 1828 to Dumfriesshire to write. In 1834
moved to Cheyne Row, Chelsea, and died there in 1881.

SARTOR RESARTUS

ON HEROES

HERO WORSHIP

THOMAS CARLYLE

LONDON: J. M. DENT & SONS LTD.
NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO. INC.

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J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.
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First published in this edition 1908
Last reprinted 1948_

INTRODUCTION

One of the most vital and pregnant books in our modern literature,
"Sartor Resartus" is also, in structure and form, one of the most
daringly original. It defies exact classification. It is not a
philosophic treatise. It is not an autobiography. It is not a r