The Collected Works of William Makepeace Thackeray E-Book

William Makepeace Thackeray

• Herausgeber: PergamonMedia
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - 19100 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: – Vanity Fair – Barry Lyndon – The World's Greatest Books — Volume — Fiction – The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English – Harvard Classics Volume – The Book of Snobs – The Rose and the Ring – Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume Elbert Hubbard – The Virginians – The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., a Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne – The History of Pendennis – Home Life of Great AuthorsHattie Tyng Griswold – Burlesques – Roundabout Papers – The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family – Catherine: A Story – The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh – The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh – Men's Wives – Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges – Thackerayana – Studies in Early Victorian LiteratureFrederic Harrison – ThackerayAnthony Trollope – A History of Pendennis, Volume – The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh: The Irish Sketch Book – The Second Funeral of Napoleon – The Loving Ballad of Lord BatemanCharles Dickens and – A Little Dinner at Timmins's – George Cruikshank – The History of Samuel Titmarsh, and The Great Hoggarty Diamond – The Fitz-Boodle Papers – George Cruikshank – John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character – The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush – Little Travels and Roadside Sketches – Ballads – Little Travels and Roadside Sketches – Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo – The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan – The Fatal Boots – Barry Lyndon – The Mahogany Tree – The Wolves and the Lamb – The Bedford-Row Conspiracy – The Wolves and the Lamb – Some Roundabout Papers

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Vanity Fair

BEFORE THE CURTAIN

CHAPTER I

Chiswick Mall

CHAPTER II

In Which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign

CHAPTER III

Rebecca Is in Presence of the Enemy

CHAPTER IV

The Green Silk Purse

CHAPTER V

Dobbin of Ours

CHAPTER VI

Vauxhall

CHAPTER VII

Crawley of Queen's Crawley

CHAPTER VIII

Private and Confidential

CHAPTER IX

Family Portraits

CHAPTER X

Miss Sharp Begins to Make Friends

CHAPTER XI

Arcadian Simplicity

CHAPTER XII

Quite a Sentimental Chapter

CHAPTER XIII

Sentimental and Otherwise

CHAPTER XIV

Miss Crawley at Home

CHAPTER XV

In Which Rebecca's Husband Appears for a Short Time

CHAPTER XVI

The Letter on the Pincushion

CHAPTER XVII

How Captain Dobbin Bought a Piano

CHAPTER XVIII

Who Played on the Piano Captain Dobbin Bought

CHAPTER XIX

Miss Crawley at Nurse

CHAPTER XX

In Which Captain Dobbin Acts as the Messenger of Hymen

CHAPTER XXI

A Quarrel About an Heiress

CHAPTER XXII

A Marriage and Part of a Honeymoon

CHAPTER XXIII

Captain Dobbin Proceeds on His Canvass

CHAPTER XXIV

In Which Mr. Osborne Takes Down the Family Bible

CHAPTER XXV

In Which All the Principal Personages Think Fit to Leave Brighton

CHAPTER XXVI

Between London and Chatham

CHAPTER XXVII

In Which Amelia Joins Her Regiment

CHAPTER XXVIII

In Which Amelia Invades the Low Countries

CHAPTER XXIX

Brussels

CHAPTER XXX

"The Girl I Left Behind Me"

CHAPTER XXXI

In Which Jos Sedley Takes Care of His Sister

CHAPTER XXXII

In Which Jos Takes Flight, and the War Is Brought to a Close

CHAPTER XXXIII

In Which Miss Crawley's Relations Are Very Anxious About Her

CHAPTER XXXIV

James Crawley's Pipe Is Put Out

CHAPTER XXXV

Widow and Mother

CHAPTER XXXVI

How to Live Well on Nothing a Year

CHAPTER XXXVII

The Subject Continued

CHAPTER XXXVIII

A Family in a Very Small Way

CHAPTER XXXIX

A Cynical Chapter

CHAPTER XL

In Which Becky Is Recognized by the Family

CHAPTER XLI

In Which Becky Revisits the Halls of Her Ancestors

CHAPTER XLII

Which Treats of the Osborne Family

CHAPTER XLIII

In Which the Reader Has to Double the Cape

CHAPTER XLIV

A Round-about Chapter between London and Hampshire

CHAPTER XLV

Between Hampshire and London

CHAPTER XLVI

Struggles and Trials

CHAPTER XLVII

Gaunt House

CHAPTER XLVIII

In Which the Reader Is Introduced to the Very Best of Company

CHAPTER XLIX

In Which We Enjoy Three Courses and a Dessert

CHAPTER L

Contains a Vulgar Incident

CHAPTER LI

In Which a Charade Is Acted Which May or May Not Puzzle the Reader

CHAPTER LII

In Which Lord Steyne Shows Himself in a Most Amiable Light

CHAPTER LIII

A Rescue and a Catastrophe

CHAPTER LIV

Sunday After the Battle

CHAPTER LV

In Which the Same Subject is Pursued

CHAPTER LVI

Georgy is Made a Gentleman

CHAPTER LVII

Eothen

CHAPTER LVIII

Our Friend the Major

CHAPTER LIX

The Old Piano

CHAPTER LX

Returns to the Genteel World

CHAPTER LXI

In Which Two Lights are Put Out

CHAPTER LXII

Am Rhein

CHAPTER LXIII

In Which We Meet an Old Acquaintance

CHAPTER LXIV

A Vagabond Chapter

CHAPTER LXV

Full of Business and Pleasure

CHAPTER LXVI

Amantium Irae

CHAPTER LXVII

Which Contains Births, Marriages, and Deaths

BARRY LYNDON

THE MEMOIRES OF BARRY LYNDON, ESQ.

CHAPTER I. MY PEDIGREE AND FAMILY—UNDERGO THE INFLUENCE OF THE TENDER

CHAPTER II. I SHOW MYSELF TO BE A MAN OF SPIRIT

CHAPTER III. A FALSE START IN THE GENTEEL WORLD

CHAPTER IV. IN WHICH BARRY TAKES A NEAR VIEW OF MILITARY GLORY

CHAPTER V. BARRY FAR FROM MILITARY GLORY

CHAPTER VI. THE CRIMP WAGGON—MILITARY EPISODES

CHAPTER VII. BARRY LEADS A GARRISON LIFE, AND FINDS MANY FRIENDS THERE

CHAPTER VIII. BARRY'S ADIEU TO MILITARY PROFESSION

CHAPTER IX. I APPEAR IN A MANNER BECOMING MY NAME AND LINEAGE

CHAPTER X. MORE RUNS OF LUCK

CHAPTER XI. IN WHICH THE LUCK GOES AGAINST BARRY

CHAPTER XII. TRAGICAL HISTORY OF PRINCESS OF X——

CHAPTER XIII. I CONTINUE MY CAREER AS A MAN OF FASHION

CHAPTER XIV. I RETURN TO IRELAND, AND EXHIBIT MY SPLENDOUR AND

CHAPTER XV. I PAY COURT TO MY LADY LYNDON

CHAPTER XVI. I PROVIDE NOBLY FOR MY FAMILY

CHAPTER XVII. I APPEAR AS AN ORNAMENT OF ENGLISH SOCIETY

CHAPTER XVIII. MY GOOD FORTUNE BEGINS TO WAVER

CHAPTER XIX. CONCLUSION

THE VIRGINIANS

A TALE OF THE LAST CENTURY

TO SIR HENRY MADISON, Chief Justice of Madras, this book is inscribed by an affectionate old friend. London, September 7, 1859.

THE VIRGINIANS

CHAPTER I. In which one of the Virginians visits home

CHAPTER II. In which Harry has to pay for his Supper

CHAPTER III. The Esmonds in Virginia

CHAPTER IV. In which Harry finds a New Relative

CHAPTER V. Family Jars

CHAPTER VI. The Virginians begin to see the World

CHAPTER VII. Preparations for War

CHAPTER VIII. In which George suffers from a Common Disease

CHAPTER IX. Hospitalities

CHAPTER X. A Hot Afternoon

CHAPTER XI. Wherein the two Georges prepare for Blood

CHAPTER XII. News from the Camp

CHAPTER XIII. Profitless Quest

CHAPTER XIV. Harry in England

CHAPTER XV. A Sunday at Castlewood

CHAPTER XVI. In which Gumbo shows Skill with the Old English Weapon

CHAPTER XVII. On the Scent

CHAPTER XVIII. An Old Story

CHAPTER XIX. Containing both Love and Luck

CHAPTER XX. Facilis Descensus

CHAPTER XXI. Samaritans

CHAPTER XXII. In Hospital

CHAPTER XXIII. Holidays

CHAPTER XXIV. From Oakhurst to Tunbridge

CHAPTER XXV. New Acquaintances

CHAPTER XXVI. In which we are at a very Great Distance from Oakhurst

CHAPTER XXVII. Plenus Opus Aleae

CHAPTER XXVIII. The Way of the World