Thomas Carlyle's Past and Present (1843) was a prophetic warning of impending disaster for mid-Victorian Britain that was delivered in what the author described as a ...

A book of social commentary informed by the history of England. It forms an analysis of the problems of newly industrialized England both by invoking historical events and by ...

Past and Present is a book by Thomas Carlyle. It combines medieval history with criticism of 19th-century British society, comparing the reverence for work and heroism of ...

Carlyle presents the history of Samson of Tottington, a 12th-century monk who became Abbot of Bury St. Edmunds, as chronicled by Jocelin of Brakelond. Carlyle describes Samson ...

Reproduction of the original: Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle