William Makepeace: 300 books

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author).  *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience.  *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. Some poet has observed, that if any man would write down...

Thackeray’s unfinished last novel (1864) promised to be one of the great novelist’s best. In this sprawling 18th-century romance, Denis strives to follow his uncle’s illustrious career in the British navy. But his grandfather, head of a band of smugglers, has other plans… soon embroiling Denis in a highway robbery.

A governess must hide her scandalous past as an actress in 1860’s Lovel, which Thackeray based on his 1854 play The Wolves and the Lamb. “The most overtly theatrical work we have from one of the 19th century’s most theatrical writers.”—Anne Layman Horn, Victorian Literature and Culture.

Thackeray was a regular contributor to the celebrated satirical magazine Punch—which for a while was almost a second home for him. Gathered here is an entertaining collection of Thackeray’s Punch pieces, including “Mr. Spec’s Remonstrance,” “The Georges,” “Irish Gems,” and a handful of his hilarious portraits of the many varieties of snobs.

SIR LUDWIG OF HOMBOURG. It was in the good old days of chivalry, when every mountain that bathes its shadow in the Rhine had its castle: not inhabited, as now, by a few rats and owls, nor covered with moss and wallflowers, and funguses, and creeping ivy. No, no! where the ivy now clusters there grew...

We know exceedingly little of the genesis and progress of Esmond. "It did not seem to be a part of our lives as Pendennis was," says Lady Ritchie, though she wrote part of it to dictation. She "only heard Esmond spoken of very rarely". Perhaps its state was not the less gracious. The Milton girls...

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author).  *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. One of the most remarkable works by Thackeray, this work dwells on the figures behind the monumental events of the French Revolution.

“Shewing Who Robbed Him, Who Helped Him, and Who Passed Him By” is the subtitle of the last (1861-62) complete novel by the master English satirist. This semiautobiographical look back at the rollicking misadventures of a young heir is narrated by Thackeray’s alter-ego, the hero of his earlier coming-of-age novel Pendennis.

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author).  *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. A Christmas story.

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. In some collection of old English Ballads there is an ancient...

Thackeray, author of the masterpiece Vanity Fair, was considered one of the finest writers of the Victorian heyday: Dickens was his closest rival. This anthology covers all of Thackeray's versatile genius: his sketches, journalism, essays, cartoons and fiction. With explanatory notes by Scholar and...

Thackeray, an only child, was born in Calcutta, India, where his father, Richmond Thackeray (1 September 1781 – 13 September 1815), was secretary to the board of revenue in the British East India Company. His mother, Anne Becher (1792–1864) was the second daughter of Harriet Becher and John Harman Becher, who was also a secretary (writer) for the East India Company. -wikipedia

Set in 19th-century London, Thackeray's The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy (1848-50) presents a partially fictionalised autobiography of the title character. Country-born gentleman Arthur Pendennis travels to London in quest of town life and...

Some poet has observed, that if any man would write down what has really happened to him in this mortal life, he would be sure to make a good book, though he never had met with a single adventure from his birth to his burial. How much more, then, must I, who HAVE had adventures, most singular, pathetic,...