This weeks Proud to be Scottish: Thomas Carlyle was an - TopicsExpress



          

This weeks Proud to be Scottish: Thomas Carlyle was an exceptional writer and philosopher and possibly the worlds most patient man. He completed writing his epic History of the French Revolution but the maid thought it was waste paper and burned it on the fire!! He rewrote the whole book again - luckily for us as Charles Dickens used it as his major source for A Tale of Two Cities (published today in 1859), one of the bestselling novels of all time, with over 200 million copies sold!
Posted on: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 08:20:41 +0000

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