Roundabout Papers (Annotated)
Nonfiction, Travel, Europe, Great Britain, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, Customs & Traditions, History, British
| Author: | William Makepeace Thackeray | ISBN: | 1230001422726 |
| Publisher: | Consumer Oriented Ebooks Publisher | Publication: | November 11, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | William Makepeace Thackeray |
| ISBN: | 1230001422726 |
| Publisher: | Consumer Oriented Ebooks Publisher |
| Publication: | November 11, 2016 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
*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.
Contents
On a lazy idle boy -- On two children in black -- On ribbons -- On some late great victories -- Thorns in the cushion -- On screens in dining-rooms -- Tunbridge toys -- De juventute -- On a joke I once heard from the late Thomas Hood -- Round about the Christmas tree -- On a chalk-mark on the door -- On being found out -- On a hundred years hence -- Small-beer chronicle -- Ogres -- On two roundabout papers which I intend to write -- A Mississippi bubble -- On Letts's diary -- Notes of a week's holiday -- Nil nisi bonum -- On half a loaf: A letter to Messrs. Broadway, Battery and Co., of New York, Bankers -- The notch on the Axe: a story à la mode -- De finibus -- On a peal of bells -- On a pear-tree -- Dessein's -- On some carp at Sans Souci -- Autour de mon chapeau -- On Alexandrines: a letter to some country cousins -- On a medal of George the Fourth -- "Strange to say, on Club paper" -- The last sketch.
*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.
Contents
On a lazy idle boy -- On two children in black -- On ribbons -- On some late great victories -- Thorns in the cushion -- On screens in dining-rooms -- Tunbridge toys -- De juventute -- On a joke I once heard from the late Thomas Hood -- Round about the Christmas tree -- On a chalk-mark on the door -- On being found out -- On a hundred years hence -- Small-beer chronicle -- Ogres -- On two roundabout papers which I intend to write -- A Mississippi bubble -- On Letts's diary -- Notes of a week's holiday -- Nil nisi bonum -- On half a loaf: A letter to Messrs. Broadway, Battery and Co., of New York, Bankers -- The notch on the Axe: a story à la mode -- De finibus -- On a peal of bells -- On a pear-tree -- Dessein's -- On some carp at Sans Souci -- Autour de mon chapeau -- On Alexandrines: a letter to some country cousins -- On a medal of George the Fourth -- "Strange to say, on Club paper" -- The last sketch.
