This is meticulous and laborious work that was always likely to be done only once, and so I, at least, am pleased that it was completed here with such unflagging attention."—Albert Pionke, William and Margaret Going Endowed Professor of ...

Historical Essays provides an authoritative critical, annotated edition of Carlyle's essays on history and historical subjects.

This volume "contains the first volume of his [Thomas Carlyle's] translation of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister."--from the back cover.