William Makepeace Thackeray
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"I think I could be a good woman, if I had five thousand a year," observes beautiful and clever Becky Sharp, one of the wickedest and most appealing women in all of literature. Becky is just one of the many figures that populate William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair, a satirical panorama of upper-middle-class life and manners in London at the beginning of the nineteenth century
3) Pendennis
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English
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It is set in 19th-century England, particularly in London. The main hero is a young English gentleman Arthur Pendennis, who is born in the country and sets out for London to seek his place in life and society.
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The History of Henry Esmond is a historical novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, originally published in 1852. The book tells the story of the early life of Henry Esmond, a colonel in the service of Queen Anne of England. A typical example of Victorian historical novels, Thackeray's work of historical fiction tells its tale against the backdrop of late 17th- and early 18th-century England - specifically, major events surrounding the English Restoration...
7) The Newcomes
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Everyman's library. Fiction volume 465
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English
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The novel tells the story of Colonel Thomas Newcome, a virtuous and upstanding character. It is equally the story of Colonel Newcome's son, Clive. Colonel Newcome goes out to India for decades, then returns to England where Clive meets his cousin Ethel. After years in England, the colonel returns to India for another several years and while he is there, Clive travels Europe and his love for Ethel waxes and wanes.
20) Roundabout papers: (from the Cornhill magazine) : to which is added The second funeral of Napoleon
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Smith, Elder
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1869
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English
