num_pages: 614
description: In this definitive biography of the great Victorian essayist Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Fred Kaplan provides a vivid picture of Victorian life as he gives the reader a sensitive and candid portrait of a complex and difficult man.
language: English
title: Thomas Carlyle: A Biography
titlecomplete: Thomas Carlyle: A Biography
characters: Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey, Thomas Carlyle, Robert Browning, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Giuseppe Mazzini, John Stuart Mill
genres: Nonfiction, Biography
ratings_count: 11
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Biography or Autobiography, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Biography/Autobiography
publisher: University of California Press