Moral Desperado

'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, TimesThomas Carlyle was the most influential man of letters of his day, and his vivid account of the French Revolution remains one of...