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Moral Desperado
A Life of Thomas Carlyle
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Moral Desperado
Bringing great writing back into print - a Faber Finds book.
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Thomas Carlyle was the most influential man of letters of his day, and his vivid account of the French Revolution remains one of the classic histories. Even George Eliot, no admirer, wrote: 'It is an idle question to ask whether his books will be read a century hence; if they were all burnt as the grandest of Suttes on his funeral pyre, it would only be like cutting down an oak after its acorns have sown a forest.'
Moral Desperado by Simon Heffer draws upon previously unavailable papers to reassess a magnificent, defiant and often lonely individualist whose idiosyncratic and passionate books brought him universal fame.
'A brilliant and scholarly biography of an extraordinary figure.' - Lord Blake, Country Life
'A fresh, engaging, conscientious account of one of the great Victorians.' - Michael Foot, London Review of Books
'A thorough and convincing account of 'the sage'.' - Peter Ackroyd, The Times
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ISBN: 9780571288366
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 19 January 2012
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Edition: Main
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 32.0mm
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 680g
Pages: 446
About the Author
Simon Heffer (born 1960) has been since 2005 an Associate Editor and columnist of the Daily Telegraph. In his extensive career as a journalist he has also been the Deputy Editor and Political Correspondent for The Spectator, the Deputy Editor of the Daily Telegraph (1994-1995) and columnist with the Daily Mail. He is also the author of six books, including his biographies of Enoch Powell (Like the Roman) and Vaughan Williams, both being reissued in Faber Finds.
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