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A biography of the Victorian era Scottish author and philosopher, whose reputation declined after he became one of Hitler's favorite authors
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About the Author
Simon Heffer (born 1960) has been since 2005 an Associate Editor and columnist of the Daily Telegraph. In his extensive career as a journalist he has also been the Deputy Editor and Political Correspondent for The Spectator, the Deputy Editor of the Daily Telegraph (1994-1995) and columnist with the Daily Mail. He is also the author of six books, including his biographies of Enoch Powell (Like the Roman)...
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Few eminent Victorians were as unlikable, unreadable or miserable as Thomas Carlyle. Heffer, his newest biographer-a London newspaper editor whose first biography this is-concedes this in his bicentenary life. Carlyle (1796-1881) was selfish, obsessive, morose and mean-spirited, especially to his long-suffering wife, Jane, with whom he apparently never consummated his marriage of 40 years. Although Carlyle would be an appropriate subject for a pathography, Heffer does not attempt...
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- PublisherTrafalgar Square
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0297815644
- ISBN 13 9780297815648
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages420
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