Delphi Classics, 2012. — 10332 p. Sadly, Thackeray is seldom read nowadays. Except for 'Vanity Fair', he is mostly unknown and yet many of his contemporaries rated him as highly as Dickens. This comprehensive eBook aims to reveal the true genius of this master storyteller, featuring the complete works, with beautiful illustrations and special bonus texts. Features illustrated...
The Chronicle of the Drum. Part I Part II Abd-el-Kader at Toulon; or, The Caged Hawk The King of Brentford's Testament The White Squall Peg of Limavaddy May-Day Ode The Ballad of Bouillabaisse The Mahogany Tree The Yankee Volunteers The Pen and the Album Mrs. Katherine's Lantern Lucy's Birthday The Cane-Bottom'd Chair Piscator and Piscatrix The Rose upon my Balcony Ronsard to...
Barry Lyndon is a picaresque novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844, about a member of the Irish gentry trying to become a member of the English aristocracy. Thackeray, who based the novel on the life and exploits of the Anglo-Irish rake and fortune-hunter Andrew Robinson Stoney, later reissued it under the title The Memoirs...
Novels by eminent hands. George de barnwell. Codlingsby. Phil fogarty. Barbazure. Lords and liveries. Crinoline. The stars and stripes. A plan for a prize novel. The diary of c. Jeames de la pluche, esq., The tremendous adventures of major gahagan. A legend of the rhine. Rebecca and rowena. The history of the next french revolution. Cox's diary.
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Catherine: A Story was the first full-length work of fiction produced by William Makepeace Thackeray. It first appeared in serialized installments in Fraser's Magazine between May 1839 and February 1840. Thackeray's original intention in writing it was to criticize the Newgate school of crime fiction, exemplified by Bulwer-Lytton and Harrison Ainsworth, whose works...
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Catherine: A Story was the first full-length work of fiction produced by William Makepeace Thackeray. It first appeared in serialized installments in Fraser's Magazine between May 1839 and February 1840. Thackeray's original intention in writing it was to criticize the Newgate school of crime fiction, exemplified by Bulwer-Lytton and Harrison Ainsworth, whose works...
(novel) The story of "Catherine," which appeared in Fraser's Magazine in 1839-40, was written by Mr. Thackeray, under the name of Ikey Solomons, Jun., to counteract the injurious influence of some popular fictions of that day, which made heroes of highwaymen and burglars, and created a false sympathy for the vicious and criminal. With this purpose, the author chose for the...
This could be called a comedy of manners or a comedy of perspectives. Thackeray shows a mature, if not inspired, view of the relations between not just men and their wives but also between husbands. Care should be paid to the subtle commentary about social customs and norms and if the tenor of the piece lacks that tensionof a Dickens, then so much the better. I have always found...
On the 20th of August, 1844, the writer of this little book went to dine at the Club, quite unconscious of the wonderful events which Fate had in store for him. Mr. William was there, giving a farewell dinner to his friend Mr. James (now Sir James). These two asked Mr. Titmarsh to join company with them, and the conversation naturally fell upon the tour Mr. James was about to...
Based on historical events, this tale from the imagination of beloved English author William Makepeace Thackeray blends his trademark wit and spot-on satire with an engaging mystery. A must-read for fans of closely observed social satire and lovers of Thackeray's other works, such as Vanity Fair and The Rose and the Ring.
The Book of Snobs is a collection of satirical works by William Makepeace Thackeray published in book form in 1848, the same year as his more famous Vanity Fair. The pieces first appeared in fifty-three weekly pieces from February 28, 1846 to February 27, 1847 as "The Snobs of England, by one of themselves," in the satirical magazine Punch. The pieces, which were immensely popular...
These are stories that were published around Christmastime and give a nod to the season, but they are meant more for entertainment during the season rather than highlighting the season. The first four stories are more character studies than they are stories. The last is listed as a pantomime and is aimed toward children (at least that is what we are led to believe). Thackeray's...
Другое название: "Stubbs's Calendar, or The Fatal Boots"; "Календарь Стеббса или роковые сапоги". «The Fatal Boots» — впервые напечатано под псевдонимом Michael Angelo Titmarsh в 1839 году в «Комическом альманахе», который издавал художник Джордж Крукшенк. Каждой из двенадцати глав соответствовала гравюра. О теме её писатель и художник договаривались заранее. January.--The...
The History of Henry Esmond is a historical novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, originally published in 1852. The book tells the story of the early life of Henry Esmond, a colonel in the service of Queen Anne of England. A typical example of Victorian historical novels, Thackeray's work of historical fiction tells its tale against the backdrop of late 17th- and early...
The History of Pendennis (1848–1850) is a novel by the English author William Makepeace Thackeray. It is set in 19th-century England, particularly in London. The main hero is a young English gentleman Arthur Pendennis, who is born in the country and sets out for London to seek his place in life and society. In line with other Thackeray's works, most notably Vanity Fair, Pendennis...
The satirical memoirs of Mr Charles James Harrington Fitzroy Yellowplush, which portrays the life of a Victorian manservant and the different social classes. Yellowplush — первый псевдоним Теккерея и первый созданный им персонаж, от имени которого он обращался к публике. Желтоплюш — лакей. Отца он не знал. Мать дала ему имя Чарльз Джеймс Харрингтон Фицрой Желтоплюш — «в честь...
The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1855. The novel tells the story of Colonel Thomas Newcome, a virtuous and upstanding character. It is equally the story of Colonel Newcome's son, Clive, who studies and travels for the purpose of becoming a painter, although the profession is frowned on by some of his...
Ярмарка тщеславия. Год выпуска: 1848/2010 Автор: William Makepeace Thackeray Жанр: Классика Язык: английский Издательство: Planet eBook Количество страниц: 1100 Описание: The story opens at Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies, where the principal protagonists Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley have just completed their studies and are preparing to depart for Amelia's house in...
Ярмарка тщеславия. Осиротевшая дочь художника и певицы Беки Шарп выросла в бедных кварталах Лондона, но всегда надеялась, что сможет войти в высшее общество. Используя ум, обаяние, красоту, хорошее воспитание, Беки начинает восходить по социальной лестнице вместе со своей подругой Амелией, отчаянно преодолевая противодействие общества.
Illustrated by William Thackeray. Ярмарка тщеславия. Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic observer. Although subtitled 'A Novel without a Hero', Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of...
Illustrated by William Thackeray. Ярмарка тщеславия. Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic observer. Although subtitled 'A Novel without a Hero', Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of two...
Illustrated by William Thackeray. Ярмарка тщеславия. Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic observer. Although subtitled 'A Novel without a Hero', Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of two...
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