Thomas Carlyle
Subtitle: The Man and His Books
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9781417953608
Subjects: Biography: general; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Literary
First sentence: FIFTY years ago the words, "Thomas Carlyle, Nutholm," painted by a village artist on a rustic cart as homely as his letters, would not have been likely to attract any particular notice from the passing pilgrim who had just emerged from the pastoral valley of the Clyde into that comparatively level, well cultivated, and sylvan country from which you first descry the sparkling waters of the Solway.