Here are Golden Words: Sartor Resartus Abridged for Modern Times

Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus is a novel written in 1831 about the life and philosophy of fictional German Professor Diogenes Teufelsdröckh. The novel's narrator is an unnamed fictional Editor, who attempts to compile Teufelsdröckh's philosophical writing into a single coherent volume, while telling some of the Professor's life story. Sartor Resartus is a short novel, coming in at just under 80,000 words. So why is an abridged version needed? Simply put, because it is complicated. Modern...