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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr TeufelsdröckhThomas Carlyle

Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh

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Original author: Thomas Carlyle

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"Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh" by Thomas Carlyle is a novel first serialized between 1833-1834. A skeptical English Editor attempts to review a bewildering German philosophy book about clothes by the fictional Professor Diogenes Teufelsdröckh. When the Editor requests biographical information to make sense of the philosopher's Transcendentalist musings, he receives only bags of paper scraps. The work parodies German idealism through fragmentary narrative and increasingly exasperated commentary, blending satire with philosophical meditation.

Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh, by Thomas Carlyle. Republished by OpenStories from Project Gutenberg eBook #1051.

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34 Chapters

  1. 1.Chapter I: Preliminary1,434 words
  2. 2.Chapter II: Editorial Difficulties1,343 words
  3. 3.Chapter III: Reminiscences3,740 words
  4. 4.Chapter IV: Characteristics1,918 words
  5. 5.Chapter V: The World in Clothes1,935 words
  6. 6.Chapter VI: Aprons740 words
  7. 7.Chapter VII: Miscellaneous-Historical1,238 words
  8. 8.Chapter VIII: The World Out of Clothes1,817 words
  9. 9.Chapter IX: Adamitism1,474 words
  10. 10.Chapter X: Pure Reason1,710 words
  11. 11.Chapter XI: Prospective2,711 words
  12. 12.Chapter I: Genesis2,386 words
  13. 13.Chapter II: Idyllic2,813 words
  14. 14.Chapter III: Pedagogy5,118 words
  15. 15.Chapter IV: Getting Under Way3,706 words
  16. 16.Chapter V: Romance4,149 words
  17. 17.Chapter VI: Sorrows of Teufelsdrockh3,088 words
  1. 18.Chapter VII: The Everlasting No2,597 words
  2. 19.Chapter VIII: Centre of Indifference3,580 words
  3. 20.Chapter IX: The Everlasting Yea3,844 words
  4. 21.Chapter X: Pause2,279 words
  5. 22.Chapter I: Incident in Modern History1,653 words
  6. 23.Chapter II: Church-Clothes943 words
  7. 24.Chapter III: Symbols2,329 words
  8. 25.Chapter IV: Helotage1,308 words
  9. 26.Chapter V: The Phoenix1,807 words
  10. 27.Chapter VI: Old Clothes1,425 words
  11. 28.Chapter VII: Organic Filaments2,727 words
  12. 29.Chapter VIII: Natural Supernaturalism3,481 words
  13. 30.Chapter IX: Circumspective1,160 words
  14. 31.Chapter X: The Dandiacal Body4,026 words
  15. 32.Chapter XI: Tailors1,022 words
  16. 33.Chapter XII: Farewell1,757 words
  17. 34.Appendix2,253 words