{"product_id":"on-heroes-hero-worship-and-the-thomas-carlyle-9780520075153","title":"On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History: Volume 1","description":"In his 1840 lectures on heroes, Thomas Carlyle, Victorian essayist and social critic, championed the importance of the individual in history. Published the following year and eventually translated into fifteen languages, this imaginative work of history, comparative religion, and literature is the most influential statement of a man who came to be thought of as a secular prophet and the \"undoubted head of English letters\" (Emerson). His vivid portraits of Muhammad, Dante, Luther, Napoleon--just a few of the individuals Carlyle celebrated for changing the course of world history--made \u003ci\u003eOn Heroes\u003c\/i\u003e a challenge to the anonymous social forces threatening to control life during the Industrial Revolution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn eight volumes, The Strouse Edition will provide the texts of Carlyle's major works edited for the first time to contemporary scholarly standards. For the general reader, its detailed introductions and annotations will offer insight into the author's thought and a reconstruction of the diverse and often arcane Carlylean sources.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas Carlyle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520075153\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520075153\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/07\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 622\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.36h x 6.31w x 2.00d","brand":"Thomas Carlyle","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44056200839423,"sku":"9780520075153","price":78.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0d04a286-c6d9-42ef-bdc9-15800e71230c.jpg?v=1685040051","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/on-heroes-hero-worship-and-the-thomas-carlyle-9780520075153","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}