Sartor Resartus

by Thomas Carlyle

Book Overview

Sartor Resartus ("The Tailor Retailored") is ostensibly an introduction to a strange history of clothing by the German Professor of Things in General, Diogenes Teufelsdrockh; its deeper concerns are social injustice, the right way of living in the world, and the large questions of faith and understanding. This is the first edition to present the novel as it originally appeared, with indications of the changes Carlyle made to later editions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192817574
• ISBN13: 9780192817570
• Release Date: December 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.6" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

My all-time favorite book

From the correspondance of T.H. Huxley:"...when I look back, what do I find to have been the agents of my redemption? The hope of immortality or of future reward? I can honestly say that for these fourteen years such a consideration has not entered my head. No, I can tell you exactly what has been at work. Sartor Resartus led me to know that a deep sense of religion was compatible with the entire absence of theology. Secondly, science and her methods gave me a resting-place independent of authority and tradition. Thirdly, love opened up to me a view of the sanctity of human nature, and impressed me with a deep sense of responsibility."I couldn't put it better. This is one of the books that makes life worth living.

A powerful and profound book

This is a powerful and profound book and even sort of funny (a professor of everything... c'mon!!!) This is a difficult book. It has small print and is written in the sort of stilted style that one would expect for a book with a Latin name written by a Scot more than a century ago. Carlyle was one of the most brilliant men of his time and in this book you can see hints of Goethe and Novalis and the other German romantic types..... which makes it sort of worthwhile....But this was a really tough book for me to get through. Normally, I can plow through about anything.... but this took an awful lot of work.... I recommend it, though, with that qualification.... it is one of the "best" books ever written....!

Altrusm for the times

This great work lays the foundation for correcting the ills of our society today. Many great lessons are to be learned. The minnow theory and the lessions learned from the Everlasting Yea are timeless. Must read and reread to gain fully understanding.

Small print, but wonderful.

I may have an original copy of Sartor Resartus, and would love someone's opinion. This hardcover book was published by James Miller in 1866. The title page has: "FROM THE LAST LONDON EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED BY THE AUTHOR."

A work of genius

The greatest neglected book in cultural history, endlessly complex, subtle, always self-critical, ironic, mysterious, beautiful and powerful. Not a book to read through from beginning to end, but one to dip into, explore, examine from different angles. As in the book itself, the so-called Editor attempts to piece together the shards of the hero Teufelsdrockh's identity, so the reader needs to enter this book in-medias-res, striking into its magical maze of ideas.