Havelock Ellis studies five figures he saw as personal forces shaping the future: Diderot, Heine, Whitman, Ibsen and Tolstoy. Each long essay sets the man in his age and asks what new spirit he brought, from Ibsen’s Norwegian landscapes to Whitman’s democracy, framed by an introduction and conclusion on the coming century.
An influential first book from the great Victorian student of human nature. Download the free EPUB.