Thackeray: 317 books

First opened in the 1740s, Stourhead has captivated visitors for centuries - on opening, one magazine even described it as a 'living work of art'. This guidebook shows why, exploring the Palladian mansion, housing a picture collection so large it required a new room to be built, to its world-famous landscape...

*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 a certain quiet and sequestered nook of the retired...

After a voyage, during which the captain of the ship has displayed uncommon courage, seamanship, affability, or other good qualities, grateful passengers often present him with a token of their esteem, in the shape of teapots, tankards, trays, &c. of precious metal. Among authors, however, bullion is...

Originally published in two volumes in 1858-59, this historical novel is a sequel to Henry Esmond and a prequel of sorts to Pendennis.  It follows Esmond's twin grandsons, George and Henry Warrington, as they try, in different ways, to crawl out from beneath the thumb of their mother. They may succeed—but they may also be seriously deceived. 

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*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.  An account of a trip through pre-famine Ireland. Includes some highly intelligent and pertinent observations on the state of a nation.

. . . I quitted the “Rose Cottage Hotel” at Richmond, one of the comfortablest, quietest, cheapest, neatest little inns in England, and a thousand times preferable, in my opinion, to the “Star and Garter, ” whither, if you go alone, a sneering waiter, with his hair curled, frightens you off the...

212 pages, 445 images, 11 contributors Sexual abuse of children is an especially delicate matter, and each reported case should be treated with exacting care. Accurate identification and appropriate response to symptoms of sexual maltreatment in children is essential to the resilient, long-term recovery...

Brexit is likely to lead to the largest shift in Britain's economic orientation in living memory. Some have argued that leaving the EU will enable Britain to revive markets in Commonwealth countries with which it has long-standing historical ties. Their opponents maintain that such claims are based...

Die Notwendigkeit einer Abhandlung über die Snobs an der Hand der Geschichte und durch treffliche Beispiele erläutert. Ich bin dazu ausersehen, ein solches Buch zu schreiben. Verkündung meiner Berufung mit Worten feuriger Beredsamkeit. Ich weise nach, daß die Welt allmählich für dieses Werk...

Das Buch, das den «Snob» populär machte Er schläft in weißen Glacéhandschuhen, tischt auf bis zum Bankrott und kämpft erbittert um seine gesellschaftliche Stellung: der Snob. Heute in aller Munde, wurde der Typus des arroganten Selbstdarstellers überhaupt erst mit Thackerays Buch populär....