Sartor Resartus

Sartor Resartus is genuinely original — a satirical philosophical novel that manages to be funny, profound, and maddening in roughly equal measure, and its influence on Victorian literature from Dickens to Emerson is real. The prose is deliberately obscure and the allusions are dense, so this is a book that rewards patient readers with a guide or a good scholarly edition. For the right reader — a Victorian literature student or an intellectual history enthusiast — it is one of the era's most rewarding challenges.