William Thackeray: 301 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.  An interesting book about the re-burial of French...

In this book of trenchant essays—framed as letters to a fictional nephew, “Bob”—Thackeray documents his variously amusing, annoying, and appalling experiences in Britain’s capital city. He attends balls, dinners, children’s parties, gentlemen’s clubs, the opera, and even a public hanging, and has a wicked observation to make about each.

This 1901 treasury of wit, assembled by Thackeray’s biographer Lewis Melville, covers the great English satirist’s career and collects early sketches of some of his most famous characters. The book includes “Letter from Mrs. Ramsbottom,” “Poles Offering Corn,” “The Choice of a Loaf,” “Little Spitz,” and more.

*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. Thackeray penned down his partial autobiography in The...

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Set in the second half of the eighteenth century, Barry Lyndon is the fictional autobiography of an adventurer and rogue whom the reader is led to distrust from the very beginning. Born into the petty Irish gentry, and outmanoeuvred in his first love-affair, a ruined Barry joins the British army....

The full text of four classic novels: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Vanity Fair by Thackeray, The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, and The Governess by Sarah Fielding (sister of Henry Fielding).

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A comedy in two acts, The Wolves and the Lamb tells the story of Horace Milliken, a wealthy widower and merchant, his family, and Miss Prior, his children’s governess.Thackeray approaches his characters with a thoughtfulness and keen eye for detail that permeates much of his writing, and brings this story to life.

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.

*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.

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...