William Makepeace Thackeray Books
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A Little Dinner At Timmins
[english | ]William Makepeace Thackeray
Summary: [Entertaining story about the problems besetting the eponymous couple when they decide to give a little dinner. Thackeray provides a feast of unlikely names even for characters mentioned only in passing: ...(the late Prince of Schlippenschloppen).. and there is a wonderful interlude in which the husband Fitzroy develops an infatuation for one of the angels at Fubsbys and visits every day to flirt ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 362
Adventures Of Major Gahagan
[english | ]William Makepeace Thackeray
Excerpts: [... was also a Major (in the King's service), and whom I killed in a duel, as the public most likely knows. Poor Greg. a very trivial dispute was the cause ...... more took place concerning her. I forgot to say that Jowler's wife was a half-caste woman, who had been born and bred entirely in India, and whom the ...... to have my company at this meal it amused him, he said, to see me ...]
Genres: [adventure] Downloads: 487
Ballads
[english | ]William Makepeace Thackeray
Summary: [A Collection of Old Ballads is an anonymous book published 1723 - 1725 in three volumes in London by Roberts and Leach. It was the second major collection of British folksongs to be published following Pills To Purge Melancholy (published 1719 - 1720). Ambrose Phillips was once credited as the editor but this has since been challenged. Volume one contained Chevy Chase Queen Eleanors Confession ...]
Genres: [poetry] Downloads: 496
Catherine A Story
[english | 1839]William Makepeace Thackeray
Summary: [Catherine: A Story was the first full-length work of fiction produced by William Makepeace Thackeray. It first appeared in serialized installments in Frasers Magazine between May 1839 and February 1840. Thackerays original intention in writing it was to criticize the Newgate school of crime fiction exemplified by Bulwer-Lytton and Harrison Ainsworth whose works Thackeray felt glorified criminals.]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 272
Fatal Boots
[english | ]William Makepeace Thackeray
Summary: [Catherine -- Rebecca and Rowena -- Major Gahagan -- Sultan Stork -- The fatal boots.]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 208
George Cruikshank
[english | 1840]William Makepeace Thackeray
Summary: [Podeschi J.B. Dickens]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 290
John Leech Pictures Of Life And Character
[english | ]William Makepeace Thackeray
Summary: [John Leech S Pictures Of Life And Character by William Makepeace Thackeray. John Leech s Pictures of Life and Character is presented here in a high quality kindle edition. This popular classic work by William Makepeace Thackeray is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of William Makepeace Thackeray then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.]
Genres: [non fiction] Downloads: 110
Little Travels And Roadside Sketches
[english | ]William Makepeace Thackeray
Excerpts: [... (the coachman), who had lived in some private families, was quite anxious to conciliate the footmen of the Duke of B.'s establishment, that's all, ...... dinner begins in the after-cabin-boiled salmon, boiled beef, boiled mutton, boiled cabbage, boiled potatoes, and parboiled wine for any gentlemen who ...... the human mind, if the body be in a decent state, expands into gayety and ...]
Genres: [non fiction | travel] Downloads: 232
Memoires De Barry Lyndon Du Royaume Dirlande
[french | 1844]William Makepeace Thackeray
Summary: [Rdige sous la forme de mmoires cette histoire est celle de lascension sociale et de la chute dun homme arriviste et amoral. Suite un duel au cours duquel il pense avoir tu son adversaire le jeune Redmond Barry quitte son Irlande natale pour sengager dans larme anglaise. Cest la premire tape de sa vie aventureuse qui le conduira participer la guerre de sept ans puis dserter ne pouvant ...]
Genres: [fiction] Downloads: 439
Men Wives
[english | ]William Makepeace Thackeray
Excerpts: [... Wells, of the Cobourg (by the kind permission of Mrs. Davidge), nay, of the Lane and the Market themselves, flew open before her Open sesame, ...... Mr. Walker. I won't leave the room, said he, coming forward with the heated iron in his hand, and smoothing it on the brown paper with all the dexterity ...... find a tulip of a woman to be in fashion when a little humble violet or ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 287
Notes On A Journey From Cornhill To Grand Cairo
[english | 1845]William Makepeace Thackeray
Summary: [Notes On A Journey From Cornhill To Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray. Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray We are pleased to offer thousands of books for the Kindle including thousands of hard-to-find literature and classic fiction books. Click on our Editor Name eBook-Ventures next to the book title above to view all of the titles that are ...]
Genres: [travel] Downloads: 52
The Bedford Row Conspiracy
[english | ]William Makepeace Thackeray
Summary: [The history of Samuel Titmarsh and the great Hoggarty diamond -- Mens wives -- The Bedford Row conspiracy.]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 379
The Book Of Snobs
[english | 1848]William Makepeace Thackeray
Excerpts: [... in the Colosseum, the Little Sedulous Voice Came To Me and Said, 'Smith, or Jones' (The Writer's Name is Neither Here nor There), 'Smith or ...... is the best of precepts so let us begin with a true and authentic story, showing how young aristocratic snobs are reared, and how early ...... The first mansion with the awning over the door: that canopy will be let down this evening for ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature | humor] Downloads: 385
The Christmas Books Of Mr M A Titmarsh
[english | ]William Makepeace Thackeray
Summary: [The Christmas Books Of Mr M A Titmarsh by William Makepeace Thackeray. The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh by William Makepeace Thackeray We are pleased to offer thousands of books for the Kindle including thousands of hard-to-find literature and classic fiction books. Click on our Editor Name eBook-Ventures next to the book title above to view all of the titles that are currently available. ]
Genres: [short story collection] Downloads: 39
The Fitz Boodle Papers
[english | ]William Makepeace Thackeray
Summary: [The Fitz Boodle Papers by William Makepeace Thackeray. The Fitz-Boodle Papers is presented here in a high quality kindle edition. This popular classic work by William Makepeace Thackeray is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of William Makepeace Thackeray then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 244
The Great Hoggarty Diamond
[english | 1841]William Makepeace Thackeray
Summary: [The history of Samuel Titmarsh and the great Hoggarty diamond -- Mens wives -- The Bedford Row conspiracy.]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 230
The History Of Henry Esmond
[english | 1852]William Makepeace Thackeray
Summary: [he story of Henry Esmond a colonel in the service of Queen Anne of England begins in his youth as the illegitimate and orphaned cousin of the Viscount and Lady of Castlewood. The Jacobite family gradually embraces Henry as one of their own. When Henry comes of age he joins the campaign to restore James Stuart to the throne but is eventually forced to accept the Protestant future of England.]
Genres: [fiction | historical] Downloads: 287
The History Of Pendennis
[english | 1849]William Makepeace Thackeray
Summary: [Bibliography: v. 30 p. 345-485.]
Genres: [fiction] Downloads: 382
The Memoirs Of Barry Lyndon Esq
[english | 1844]William Makepeace Thackeray
Summary: [The Luck of Barry Lyndon is a picaresque novel by William Makepeace Thackeray first published in serial form 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 rakehell and fortune-hunter Andrew Robinson Stoney later reissued it under the title The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon Esq..]
Genres: [fiction] Downloads: 240
The Rose And The Ring
[english | 1855]William Makepeace Thackeray
Summary: [The wanderings of Usheen (1889)--Crossways (1889)--The rose (1893)-- The Celtic twilight (1893)--The secret rose (1897)--Stories of Red Hanrahan.--Rosa Alchemica.]
Genres: [romance] Downloads: 332