The Works of Thomas Carlyle
The Works of Thomas Carlyle
Henry Duff Traill
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GBPThomas Carlyle (1795–1881) was one of the most influential authors of the nineteenth century. Eagerly studied at the highest level of intellectual society, his satirical essays and perceptive historical biographies caused him to be regarded for much of the Victorian period as a literary genius and eminent social philosopher. After graduating from Edinburgh University in 1814, he published his first scholarly work on German literature in 1824, before finding literary success with his history of the French Revolution in 1837. After falling from favour during the first part of the twentieth century, his work has more recently become the subject of scholarly re-examination. His introduction of German literature and philosophy into the British intellectual milieu profoundly influenced later philosophical ideas. These volumes are reproduced from the 1896 Centenary Edition of his collected works. Volume 13 contains the second volume of The Life of Frederick the Great.
Product details
November 2010Paperback
9781108022361
428 pages
229 × 152 × 27 mm
0.78kg
2 b/w illus. 3 maps
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Table of Contents
- Book V. Double-Marriage Project, and What Element it Fell into, 1723–1726:
- 1. Double-marriage in decided on
- 2. A Kaiser hunting shadows
- 3. The seven crises or European travail-throes
- 4. Double-marriage treaty cannot be signed
- 5. Crown-Prince goes into the Potsdam Guards
- 6. Ordnance-Master Seckendorf crosses the Palace-Esplanade
- 7. Tobacco-Parliament
- 8. Seckendorf's retort to Her Majesty
- Book VI. Double-Marriage Project, and Crown-Prince, Going Adrift under the Storm-Winds, 1727–1730:
- 1. Fifth crisis in the Kaiser's spectre-hunt
- 2. Death of George I
- 3. Visit to Dresden
- 4. Double-marriage project is not dead
- 5. Congress of Soissons, sixth crisis in the spectre-hunt
- 6. Imminency of war or duel between the Britannic and Prussian Majesties
- 7. A marriage
- not the double-marriage: Crown-Prince deep in trouble
- 8. Crown-Prince getting beyond his depth in trouble
- 9. Double-marriage shall be or shall not be
- Book VII. Fearful Shipwreck of the Double-Marriage Project, February–November 1730:
- 1. England sends the Excellency Hotham to Berlin
- 2. Language of birds: Excellency Hotham proves unavailing
- 3. Camp of Radewitz
- 4. Excellency Hotham quits Berlin in haste
- 5. Journey to the Reich
- 6. Journey homewards from the Reich
- catastrophe on journey homewards
- 7. Catastrophe, and Majesty, arrive in Berlin
- 8. Sequel to Crown-Prince and friends
- 9. Court-martial on Crown-Prince and consorts
- Book VIII. Crown-Prince Retrieved: Life at Custrin November 1730–February 1732:
- 1. Chaplain Muller waits on the Crown-Prince
- 2. Crown-Prince to repent and not perish
- 3. Wilhelmina is to wed the Prince of Baireuth
- 4. Criminal justice in Preussen and elsewhere
- 5. Interview of Majesty and Crown-Prince at Custrin
- 6. Wilhelmina's wedding.
