William Thackeray: 301 books

Book cover of The History of Pendennis
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

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Book cover of The Irish Sketchbook (Annotated & Illustrated)
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016

*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.
Book cover of Little Travels and Roadside Sketches
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

. . . 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...
Book cover of Das Snob-Buch: DeWest Collection
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Language: German
Release Date: October 7, 2014

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...
Book cover of Das Buch der Snobs
by William Makepeace Thackeray, Asfa-Wossen Asserate
Language: German
Release Date: May 31, 2011

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....
Book cover of Die Memoiren des Barry Lyndon, Esq., aufgezeichnet von ihm selbst
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Language: German
Release Date: June 14, 2011

Die Memoiren eines Hochstaplers/ Ein Hochstapler par excellence Liebesabenteuer, Glücksspiele aller Art, wagemutige Duelle, glanzvolle Maskenbälle, Zechgelage und Hetzjagden machen das Leben von Redmond Barry aus, der sich später Barry Lyndon nennt und vor aller Welt seine aristokratische Herkunft...
Book cover of La Foire Aux Vanites (Complete)
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Language: French
Release Date: March 8, 2015

Chiswick Mall. Notre siècle marchait sur ses quinze ans…. Par une brillante matinée de juin, une large voiture bourgeoise se dirigeait, avec une vitesse de quatre milles à l’heure, vers la lourde grille du pensionnat de jeunes demoiselles tenu par miss Pinkerton, à Chiswick Mall. La voiture était...
Book cover of Le Livre des snobs
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Language: French
Release Date: April 20, 2016

On peut être Snob ou relativement ou positivement. Par Snobs positifs, j’entends ceux qui restent Snobs n’importe où ils se trouvent, qui ne cessent jamais de l’être du matin au soir, du berceau à la tombe, que la nature a faits Snobs par essence, tandis que d’autres ne font preuve de...
Book cover of La Rose et l'Anneau
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Language: French
Release Date: December 9, 2016

Ceci vous représente Valoroso XXIV, roi de Paphlagonie, assis, avec la reine, son épouse, et leur fille unique, à leur royale table, dans leur royale salle à manger, et recevant la lettre qui annonce à Sa Majesté une visite que le prince Bulbo, héritier de Padella, roi régnant de Crim-Tartarie,...
Book cover of Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005

"I do not say there is no character as well drawn in Shakespeare [as D'Artagnan]. I do say there is none that I love so wholly." --Robert Louis Stevenson "The lasting and universal popularity of The Three Musketeers shows that Dumas, by artlessly expressing his own nature in the persons of...
Book cover of Mémoires de Barry Lyndon du royaume d'Irlande
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Language: French
Release Date: March 1, 2012

Rédigée sous la forme de mémoires, cette histoire est celle de l'ascension sociale et de la chute d'un homme arriviste et amoral. Suite à un duel au cours duquel il pense avoir tué son adversaire, le jeune Redmond Barry quitte son Irlande natale pour s'engager dans l'armée anglaise. C'est la première...
Book cover of Adventures of Major Gahagan
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

I think it but right that in making my appearance before the public I should at once acquaint them with my titles and name. My card, as I leave it at the houses of the nobility, my friends, is as follows:
Book cover of The History Of Samuel Titmarsh
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Book cover of The Fitz-Boodle Papers
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

DEAR SIR, — I have always been considered the third-best whist-player in Europe, and (though never betting more than five pounds) have for many years past added considerably to my yearly income by my skill in the game, until the commencement of the present season, when a French gentleman, Monsieur...
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