On the Choice of Books - Thomas Carlyle

By Thomas Carlyle

Release Date: 1881-02-05

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

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There comes a time in the career of every man of genius who has devoted a long life to the instruction and enlightenment of his fellow-creatures, when he receives before his death all the honours paid by posterity. Thus when a great essayist or historian lives to attain a classic and world-wide fame, his own biography becomes as interesting to the public as those he himself has written, and by which he achieved his laurels.

On the Choice of Books - Thomas Carlyle

By Thomas Carlyle

Release Date: 1881-02-05

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

(0 ratings)
There comes a time in the career of every man of genius who has devoted a long life to the instruction and enlightenment of his fellow-creatures, when he receives before his death all the honours paid by posterity. Thus when a great essayist or historian lives to attain a classic and world-wide fame, his own biography becomes as interesting to the public as those he himself has written, and by which he achieved his laurels.

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