On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History is a book by the Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle, published by James Fraser, London, in 1841. It is a collection of six lec
Title page of the first English edition
'Thomas Carliles Lectures' by Jemima Blackburn, with John Gibson Lockhart and William Macready in the audience
Monument to Thomas Carlyle by William Kellock Brown, Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow
The French Revolution: A History was written by the Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle. The three-volume work, first published in 1837, charts the course of the French Revolut
Title page of the first English edition
A Japanese illustration of Carlyle's horror at the burning of the original manuscript of The French Revolution