History of Frederick II of Prussia (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas Carlyle
- Type of Work: Historical biography
- Time of Work: 1712-1786
- Setting: Prussia, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Silesia, Moravia, Saxony, and Friesland
- Principal Characters: Frederick Ii, Great, Friederich Wilhelm, Sophie Dorothee Of Hanover, WIlhelmina, George Ii, Elizabeth Christina, Francois Marie Arouet De Voltaire
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Biography
- Subjects: Europe or Europeans, War, Eighteenth century, Kings, queens, or royalty, Germany or German people, Princes or princesses
- Locales: Austria, Poland, Prussia, Moravia, Hungary, Saxony, Friesland, Silesia
Sometimes called Carlyle’s Thirteen Year War with Frederick of Prussia, the six-volume HISTORY OF FRIEDERICH II OF PRUSSIA CALLED FREDERICK THE GREAT is still a controversial masterwork, more talked about than read. Undisputably original, the work departs radically from the Gibbon-Macauley tradition which Carlyle called the Dryasdusts in order to bring back life to a great man, a hero who exercised the divine right of kings with military and diplomatic might to overcome diabolic wrongs. Such was the belief of Carlyle, a historian who found his theory of history explicit in one...
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