The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes And Misfortunes, His Friends And His Greatest EnemyPenguin UK, 26.06.1986 - 816 Seiten Written immediately after Vanity Fair, Pendennis has a similar atmosphere of brooding disillusion, tempered by the most jovial of wits. But here Thackeray plunders his own past to create the character of Pendennis and the world in which he lives: from miserable schoolboy to striving journalist, from carefree Oxbridge to the high (and low) life of London. The result is a superbly panoramic blend of people, action and background. The true ebb and flow of life is caught and the credibility of Pen, his worldly uncle, the Major, and many of the other characters, extends far beyond the pages of the novel. Held together by Thackeray's flowing, confident prose, with its conversational ease of tone, Pendennis is as rich a portrait of England in the 1830s and 40s as it is a thorough and thoroughly entertaining self-portrait. |
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... perhaps – decided to lower his sights. It did not, indeed, prove to work out that way, but it is almost certainly what he consciously proposed to himself. He would take the ready-made armature of his own career such as it had been, and ...
... perhaps – decided to lower his sights. It did not, indeed, prove to work out that way, but it is almost certainly what he consciously proposed to himself. He would take the ready-made armature of his own career such as it had been, and ...
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... Perhaps Mrs Brookfield, too, went into the character of Amelia: Thackeray certainly told her that she did. But so, he believed, did his strong-willed and dominating mother! Thackeray made a sufficient number of odd identifications of ...
... Perhaps Mrs Brookfield, too, went into the character of Amelia: Thackeray certainly told her that she did. But so, he believed, did his strong-willed and dominating mother! Thackeray made a sufficient number of odd identifications of ...
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... perhaps most interesting. Thackeray found (rather as Dickens did) a strong attractiveness in low life and criminal practice; he detested the popular fiction that sentimentalised matter of this kind (ruffians 'with many admirable virtues ...
... perhaps most interesting. Thackeray found (rather as Dickens did) a strong attractiveness in low life and criminal practice; he detested the popular fiction that sentimentalised matter of this kind (ruffians 'with many admirable virtues ...
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... perhaps profitable to do only in a glancing way – we may arrive at a different sense of the matter, and one leaving us not altogether confident as to which is the 'greater' novelist. Thackeray nowhere approximates to the controlled ...
... perhaps profitable to do only in a glancing way – we may arrive at a different sense of the matter, and one leaving us not altogether confident as to which is the 'greater' novelist. Thackeray nowhere approximates to the controlled ...
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... perhaps the most commonly expressed stricture on the novel. Edward FitzGerald, one of Thackeray's oldest friends, was in a better position than most to remark how much of Thackeray's private life was flowing into it. Thackeray ...
... perhaps the most commonly expressed stricture on the novel. Edward FitzGerald, one of Thackeray's oldest friends, was in a better position than most to remark how much of Thackeray's private life was flowing into it. Thackeray ...
Inhalt
Chapter 41 | |
Chapter 42 | |
Chapter 43 | |
Chapter 44 | |
Chapter 45 | |
Chapter 46 | |
Chapter 47 | |
Chapter 48 | |
Chapter 9 | |
Chapter 10 | |
Chapter 11 | |
Chapter 12 | |
Chapter 13 | |
Chapter 14 | |
Chapter 15 | |
Chapter 16 | |
Chapter 17 | |
Chapter 18 | |
Chapter 19 | |
Chapter 20 | |
Chapter 21 | |
Chapter 22 | |
Chapter 23 | |
Chapter 24 | |
Chapter 25 | |
Chapter 26 | |
Chapter 27 | |
Chapter 28 | |
Chapter 29 | |
Chapter 30 | |
Chapter 31 | |
Chapter 32 | |
Chapter 33 | |
Chapter 34 | |
Chapter 35 | |
Chapter 36 | |
Chapter 37 | |
Chapter 38 | |
Chapter 39 | |
Chapter 40 | |
Chapter 49 | |
Chapter 50 | |
Chapter 51 | |
Chapter 52 | |
Chapter 53 | |
Chapter 54 | |
Chapter 55 | |
Chapter 56 | |
Chapter 57 | |
Chapter 58 | |
Chapter 59 | |
Chapter 60 | |
Chapter 61 | |
Chapter 62 | |
Chapter 63 | |
Chapter 64 | |
Chapter 65 | |
Chapter 66 | |
Chapter 67 | |
Chapter 68 | |
Chapter 69 | |
Chapter 70 | |
Chapter 71 | |
Chapter 72 | |
Chapter 73 | |
Chapter 74 | |
Chapter 75 EXEUNT OMNES | |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | |
NOTES | |
PEOPLE AND PLACES | |
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