Experience the trials and tribulations of young Arthur Pendennis in William Makepeace Thackeray's semi-autobiographical novel, "The History of Pendennis." Set against the ...

Reproduction of the original.

Set in 19th century London, England, this novel features a young English gentleman Arthur Pendennis born in the country who sets out to seek his place in life and society. In ...

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 ...