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Thomas Carlyle

4 December 1795 – 5 February 1881
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A Scottish essayist, historian and social critic, and one of the most influential voices of the Victorian age. Sartor Resartus (1833–34) and The French Revolution (1837) made his name, and his lectures On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1841) argued that history is shaped by great men. He attacked the materialism and laissez-faire economics of industrial Britain.

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1833–34
Sartor Resartus

Sartor Resartus (meaning 'The tailor re-tailored') is an 1836 novel by Thomas Carlyle, first published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in November 1833–August 1834.

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1837
The French Revolution: A History

The French Revolution: A History was written by the Scottish essayist, philosopher, and historian Thomas Carlyle.

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1841
On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History

On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, is a collection of six essays by Thomas Carlyle, published in 1841, based on a series of lectures he delivered in 1840.

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