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Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
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. After ...Show more
Catherine - A Story by William Makepeace William Makepeace Thackeray
Category: Classics
Catherine: A Story was the first full-length work of fiction produced by William Makepeace Thackeray. It first appeared in serialized installments in Fraser's Magazine between May 1839 and February 1840, credited to "Ikey Solomons, Esq. Junior." Thackeray's original intention in writing it was to critic ...Show more
Reading & Training: Vanity Fair + audio CD by Makepeace Thackeray, William
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Reading & Training Ser.
The History of Henry Esmond by William Makepeace Thackeray
Category: Classics
The actors in the old tragedies, as we read, piped their iambics to a tune, speaking from under a mask, and wearing stilts and a great head-dress. 'Twas thought the dignity of the Tragic Muse required these appurtenances, and that she was not to move except to a measure and cadence. So Queen Medea slew ...Show more
The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace Thackeray
Category: Classics
The Rose and the Ring By William Makepeace Thackeray This is Valoroso XXIV., King of Paflagonia, seated with his Queen and only child at their royal breakfast-table, and receiving the letter which announces to His Majesty a proposed visit from Prince Bulbo, heir of Padella, reigning King of Crim Tartary ...Show more
The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace William Makepeace Thackeray
Category: Classic Fiction
The Rose and The Ring is a satirical work of fantasy fiction written by William Makepeace Thackeray, originally published at Christmas 1854 (though dated 1855). It criticises, to some extent, the attitudes of the monarchy and those at the top of society and challenges their ideals of beauty and marriage ...Show more
The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray
Category: Classics
Two Brothers Take Up Arms Against Each Other in the American War for Independence To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can ...Show more
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Summer Classics S.
A story of English society during the Napoleonic wars. Through a free-wheeling melee of brilliant improvisations sail Becky Sharp, a resourceful, engaging and amoral character, and Amelia Sedley, her less lustrous but more ambiguous foil.
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray; Catherine Peters (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
William Thackery's bestseller tells the tale of two wildly different girls growing up in Victorian England. Becky Sharp is a poor orphan possessing free spirits and an abundance of wit. Her friend, Amelia Sedley is the rich daughter of a wealthy family with no real-world experience. However, the real hi ...Show more
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Evergreens Ser.
With an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull. Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic ...Show more