EVERYMAN’S LIBRARY
Founded 1906 by J. M. Dent (d. 1926)
Edited by Ernest Rhys (d. 1946)
ESSAYS & BELLES-LETTRES
SARTOR RESARTUS and ON HEROES
BY THOMAS CARLYLE · INTRODUCTION
BY PROFESSOR W. H. HUDSON
THOMAS CARLYLE, born in 1795 at Ecclefechan, the son of a stonemason. Educated at Edinburgh University. Schoolmaster for a short time, but decided on a literary career, visiting Paris and London. Retired in 1828 to Dumfriesshire to write. In 1834 moved to Cheyne Row, Chelsea, and died there in 1881.