THE ATHENAEUMOn the Choice of BooksThomas Carlyle
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On the Choice of Books
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textCarlyle’s address to the students of Edinburgh University, given when he became their Rector in 1866. He tells them to read what they truly want to read, and to work hard. It is short, and sounds like him.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 2 hr 30 min
- Where to find it
- On the Archive shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #13435. In the public domain in the United States.