Journey to Germany, autumn 1858 / edited by Richard Albert Brooks, with an introduction, notes and commentaries.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881.

Contributor:

Brooks, Richard Albert Edward, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881.

Carlyle, Thomas.

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. History of Friedrich II of Prussia.

Germany--Description and travel.

Germany.

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederick the Great.

Physical Description:

xxxviii, 222 pages : frontispiece (portrait) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press; London : H. Milford, Oxford university press, 1940.

Notes:

Map on lining-papers.

"This book was first written ... for the degree of doctor of philosophy at Yale university, has two purposes: to make available a writing of Thomas Carlyle which has so far escaped publication ... and secondly, to afford students of Carlyle a glimpse into the Scotman's mind as he was at work on twelve of the battles of which accounts appear in his History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great."--Pref.

"The manuscript of the 'Journey to Germany' was acquired by the Yale university library in 1932."--p. xii.

"Published in celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of Vassar college and in honor of Henry Noble MacCracken in the twenty-fifth year of his presidency."

Bibliography: pages [211]-216.

OCLC:

1109434