Past and Present

Book shows very light wear to covers only with blue cloth hardback boards with green and red print and embossed edging. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind with age-toned paper, 403 pages. Publication date is estimated. From Wikipedia: In 1843, Carlyle published his anti-democratic Past and Present, with its doctrine of ordered work. In it, he influentially called attention to what he termed the "Condition of England" saying "England is full of wealth.supply for human want in every kind; yet England is dying of inanition". Past and Present combines medieval history with criticism of 19th-century British society. Carlyle wrote it in seven weeks as a respite from the harassing labour of writing Cromwell. He was inspired by the recently published Chronicles of the Abbey of Saint Edmund's Bury, which had been written by Jocelin of Brakelond at the close of the 12th century. This account of a medieval monastery had taken Carlyle's fancy, and he drew upon it in order to contrast the monks' reverence for work and heroism with the sham leadership of his own day.

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Publisher: Home Book Co.

Year: 1930

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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