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Which German novel did Thomas Carlyle translate in 1824?
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Thomas Carlyle
Carlyle, detail of an oil painting by G.F. Watts, 1877; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
In 1824, the British essayist and historian Thomas Carlyle published his translation of the German novel Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, originally written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.1