Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh by Thomas Carlyle
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881
"Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh" by Thomas Carlyle is a novel first serialized between 1833-1834. A skeptical English Editor attempts to review a bewildering German philosophy book about clothes by the fictional Professor Diogenes Teufelsdröckh. When the Editor requests biographical information to make sense of the philosopher's Transcendentalist musings, he receives only bags of paper scraps. The work parodies German idealism through fragmentary narrative and increasingly exasperated commentary, blending satire with philosophical meditation. ... Read more
About this eBook
| Author | Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881 |
|---|---|
| Title | Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sartor_Resartus |
| Credits | Produced by Ron Burkey, and David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 48.4 (College-level). Difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Philosophers -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 1051 |
| Release Date | Sep 1, 1997 |
| Last Update | Jun 27, 2025 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 3018 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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