Selected Writings

The most important writings by the great and controversial Victorian polemicist.

Carlyle was one of the great figures of his age: thunderous, passionate, irascible, sceptical and idealistic. This selection is representative of all stages of Carlyle''s career, and includes ''Sign of the Times'', his essay against the mechanization of the age and the rise of the machines; the whole of ''Chartism''; a...