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Article: A love made of brains and oats. (book review)
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- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 17, 2002
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Byline: CRAIG BROWN
Thomas And Jane Carlyle: Portrait Of A Marriage by Rosemary Ashton Chatto and Windus [pound]25 _[pound]20 (0870 165 0870) *****
Thomas Carlyle was a Victorian historian who is, I suspect, barely read today: in these times of minimalism, of clipped plain pithy sentences, we haven't the time or the patience for such a passionate maximalist, and we start to feel a sense of dreadful claustrophobia in his vast books, dense as forests. The last person known to have read his impenetrable biography of Frederick the Great with any real hope was Adolf Hitler, who listened intently as Goebbels tried to cheer him up by reading inspiring passages ...
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Article: The Case of Thomas Carlyle.
American Scholar;
June 22, 2001 ;
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... ... works he wrote and edited about Carlyle has not even yet spent itself ... unhappy concerns the biography of Thomas Carlyle, and the publication of his private ... above. At his death in 1881, Carlyle was among the most revered writers ...
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