The History of PendennisThe Floating Press, 01.02.2011 - 1441 Seiten With an unmatched wit and a keen appreciation for the inanity of social mores, William Makepeace Thackeray provides his own unique spin on the family history genre in The History of Pendennis. Following a young lad who makes his way to London in search of love and a livelihood, the narrative tears through juicy family secrets, shadowy machinations, and all manner of plots and conspiracies. If you liked Vanity Fair, you'll love The History of Pendennis. |
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... mother, and prove to her that a young lady of irreproachable character and lineage, endowed with the most splendid gifts of beauty and genius, who devotes herself to the exercise of one of the noblest professions, for the sacred purpose ...
... mother, and prove to her that a young lady of irreproachable character and lineage, endowed with the most splendid gifts of beauty and genius, who devotes herself to the exercise of one of the noblest professions, for the sacred purpose ...
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... mother's brother, a London apothecary of low family, into which Pendennis's father had demeaned himself by marrying, that forced John Pendennis into so odious a calling. He quickly after his apprenticeship parted from the coarseminded ...
... mother's brother, a London apothecary of low family, into which Pendennis's father had demeaned himself by marrying, that forced John Pendennis into so odious a calling. He quickly after his apprenticeship parted from the coarseminded ...
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... mother had the happiness of seeing from her bedroom window to which her chair was rolled, her beloved John step into a close carriage of his own, a one-horse carriage it is true, but with the arms of the family of Pendennis handsomely ...
... mother had the happiness of seeing from her bedroom window to which her chair was rolled, her beloved John step into a close carriage of his own, a one-horse carriage it is true, but with the arms of the family of Pendennis handsomely ...
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... mother's, cast long blue shadows over the grass; and he would repeat in a low voice (for a scene of great natural beauty always moved the boy, who inherited this sensibility from his mother) certain lines beginning, "These are thy ...
... mother's, cast long blue shadows over the grass; and he would repeat in a low voice (for a scene of great natural beauty always moved the boy, who inherited this sensibility from his mother) certain lines beginning, "These are thy ...
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... mother never could be happy there without him. As for John Pendennis, as the father of the family, and that sort of thing, everybody had the greatest respect for him: and his orders were obeyed like those of the Medes and Persians. His ...
... mother never could be happy there without him. As for John Pendennis, as the father of the family, and that sort of thing, everybody had the greatest respect for him: and his orders were obeyed like those of the Medes and Persians. His ...
Inhalt
Chapter XXXIX Colonel Altamont Appears and Disappears | 725 |
Chapter XL Relates to Mr Harry Fokers Affairs | 743 |
Chapter XLI Carries the Reader Both to Richmond and Greenwich | 764 |
Chapter XLII Contains a Novel Incident | 781 |
Chapter XLIII Alsatia | 801 |
Chapter XLIV In Which the Colonel Narrates Some of His Adventures | 814 |
Chapter XLV A Chapter of Conversations | 834 |
Chapter XLVI Miss Amorys Partners | 858 |
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Chapter XV The Happy Village | 259 |
Chapter XVI More Storms in the Puddle | 277 |
Chapter XVII Which Concludes the First Part of this History | 298 |
Chapter XVIII Alma Mater | 319 |
Chapter XIX Pendennis of Boniface | 335 |
Chapter XX Rakes Progress | 358 |
Chapter XXI Flight After Defeat | 377 |
Chapter XXII Prodigals Return | 392 |
Chapter XXIII New Faces | 408 |
Chapter XXIV A Little Innocent | 438 |
Chapter XXV Contains Both Love and Jealousy | 459 |
Chapter XXVI A House Full of Visitors | 476 |
Chapter XXVII Contains Some BallPractising | 501 |
Chapter XXVIII Which is Both Quarrelsome and Sentimental | 517 |
Chapter XXIX Babylon | 543 |
Chapter XXX The Knights of the Temple | 564 |
Chapter XXXI Old and New Acquaintances | 580 |
Chapter XXXII In Which the Printers Devil Comes to the Door | 602 |
Chapter XXXIII Which is Passed in the Neighbourhood of Ludgate Hill | 625 |
Chapter XXXIV In Which the History Still Hovers About Fleet Street | 643 |
Chapter XXXV Dinner in the Row | 654 |
Chapter XXXVI The Pall Mall Gazette | 674 |
Chapter XXXVII Where Pen Appears in Town and Country | 684 |
Chapter XXXVIII In Which the Sylph Reappears | 710 |
Chapter XLVII Monseigneur Samuse | 882 |
Chaptyer XLVIII a Visit of Politeness | 908 |
Chapter XLIX In Shepherds Inn | 918 |
Chapter L Or Near the Temple Garden | 929 |
Chapter LI The Happy Village Again | 945 |
Chapter LII Which Had Very Nearly Been the Last of the Story | 956 |
Chapter LIII A Critical Chapter | 977 |
Chapter LIV Convalescence | 995 |
Chapter LV Fannys Occupations Gone | 1016 |
Chapter LVI In Which Fanny Engages a New Medical Man | 1036 |
Chapter LVII Foreign Ground | 1056 |
Chapter LVIII Fairoaks to Let | 1077 |
Chapter LIX Old Friends | 1096 |
Chapter LX Explanations | 1120 |
Chapter LXI Conversations | 1132 |
Chapter LXII The Way of the World | 1157 |
Chapter LXIII Which Accounts Perhaps for Chapter LXI | 1183 |
Chapter LXIV Phyllis and Corydon | 1208 |
Chapter LXV Temptation | 1218 |
Chapter LXVI In Which Pen Begins His Canvass | 1238 |
Chapter LXVII In Which Pen Begins to Doubt About His Election | 1255 |
Chapter LXVIII In Which the Major is Bidden to Stand and Deliver | 1278 |
Chapter LXIX In Which the Major Neither Yields His Money nor His Life | 1297 |
Chapter LXX In Which Pendennis Counts His Eggs | 1314 |
Chapter LXXI Fiat Justitia | 1325 |
Chapter LXXII In Which the Decks Begin to Clear | 1340 |
Chapter LXXIII Mr And Mrs Sam Huxter | 1355 |
Chapter LXXIV Shows How Arthur Had Better Have Taken a ReturnTicket | 1374 |
Chapter LXXV A Chapter of MatchMaking | 1387 |
Chapter LXXVI Exeunt Omnes | 1403 |
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The History of Pendennis (Volume 2 of 2 ) (EasyRead Edition) William Makepeace Thackeray Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1972 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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