{"product_id":"9780571288373","title":"Moral Desperado: A Life of Thomas Carlyle","description":"\u003cp\u003e'A brilliant and scholarly biography of an extraordinary figure.' Lord Blake, \u003ci\u003eCountry Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A fresh, engaging, conscientious account of one of the great Victorians.' Michael Foot, \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A thorough and convincing account of 'the sage''. Peter Ackroyd, \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   Thomas Carlyle was the most influential man of letters of his day, and his vivid account of the French Revolution remains one of the classic histories. Even George Eliot, no admirer, wrote: 'It is an idle question to ask whether his books will be read a century hence; if they were all burnt as the grandest of Suttes on his funeral pyre, it would only be like cutting down an oak after its acorns have sown a forest.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSimon Heffer draws upon previously unavailable papers to reassess a magnificent, defiant and often lonely individualist whose idiosyncratic and passionate books brought him universal fame.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123744751856,"sku":"9780571288373","price":20.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780571288373_p0.jpg?v=1763718065","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780571288373","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}