William Makepeace Thackeray eBooks
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The Book of Snobs. E-book. Formato PDF
William Makepeace Thackeray
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do — a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; a chasm to leap into, like Curtius, horse foot; a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy. That Conviction Has Pursued me for Years. It has Dogged me in the Busy Street; Seated...
The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.: Written by Himself, the Fitz-Boodle Papers Catherine: A Story Men's Wives Etc. E-book. Formato PDF
William Makepeace Thackeray
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
The Book of Snobs: And Sketches and Travels in London. E-book. Formato PDF
William Makepeace Thackeray
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
The genus "Snob" formed the subject of the earliest of Mr. Thackeray's studies of character. When he was an undergraduate of Cambridge, in 1829, there appeared an unpretending little weekly periodical entitled The Snob: a Literary and Scientific Journal, Not "conducted by members of the University," to which Mr. Thackeray...
The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends, and His Greatest Enemy. E-book. Formato PDF
William Makepeace Thackeray
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
At a quarter past ten the Major invariably made his appearance in the best blacked boots in» all London, with a checked morning cravat that never was rumpled until dinner time, a buff waistcoat which bore the crown of his sovereign on the buttons, and linen so spotless that Mr. Brummel himself asked the name of his...
Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero. E-book. Formato PDF
William Makepeace Thackeray
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
A man with a re?ective turn Of mind, walking through an exhibition of this sort, will not be Oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people's hilarity. An episode of humor or kindness touches and amuses him here and there; a pretty child looking at a gingerbread stall; a pretty girl blushing whilst her lover talks...