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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... play of Thackeray's sentimentality. Often he wrote sentimentally because, as we have seen, he was sentimental within certain areas of feeling; over mothers and babies he could be as honestly maudlin as his most lachrymose reader. But he ...
... play of Thackeray's sentimentality. Often he wrote sentimentally because, as we have seen, he was sentimental within certain areas of feeling; over mothers and babies he could be as honestly maudlin as his most lachrymose reader. But he ...
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... highly invididual mind – sombre, highspirited, disenchanted, sentimental, ironic – at play upon a society intimately known to it and tenaciously held in memory: such a book is likely to maintain its place on no unfrequented.
... highly invididual mind – sombre, highspirited, disenchanted, sentimental, ironic – at play upon a society intimately known to it and tenaciously held in memory: such a book is likely to maintain its place on no unfrequented.
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... play, said that the boy Pendennis was a disgrace to the school, a candidate for ruin in this world, and perdition in the next; a profligate who would most likely bring his venerable father to ruin and his mother to a dishonoured grave ...
... play, said that the boy Pendennis was a disgrace to the school, a candidate for ruin in this world, and perdition in the next; a profligate who would most likely bring his venerable father to ruin and his mother to a dishonoured grave ...
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... play. He did not know a word of it, though little Timmins, his form-fellow, was prompting him with all his might. Pen had made a sad blunder or two – when the awful chief broke out upon him. 'Pendennis, sir,' he said, 'your idleness is ...
... play. He did not know a word of it, though little Timmins, his form-fellow, was prompting him with all his might. Pen had made a sad blunder or two – when the awful chief broke out upon him. 'Pendennis, sir,' he said, 'your idleness is ...
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... play cheats the parent who spends money for his education. A boy who cheats his parent is not very far from robbing or forging upon his neighbour. A man who forges on his neighbour pays the penalty of his crime at the gallows. And it is ...
... play cheats the parent who spends money for his education. A boy who cheats his parent is not very far from robbing or forging upon his neighbour. A man who forges on his neighbour pays the penalty of his crime at the gallows. And it is ...
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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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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