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The second funeral of Napoleon
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William Makepeace Thackeray |
Written under the pseudonym of Michael Angelo Titmarsh, this essay describes the events of December 15, 1840 as Thackeray witnessed the celebrations connected with the arrival of Napoleon's body from… |
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Men's Wives
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William Makepeace Thackeray |
A William Makepeace Thackeray classic. |
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Barry Lyndon
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William Makepeace Thackeray |
Set in late 18th century Europe the adventures and misadventures of a minor member of the Irish gentry trying to better himself. Redmond Barry of Bally Barry is a clever young man, who learns the man… |
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The Virginians
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William Makepeace Thackeray |
In a late Eighteenth Century setting, between fashionable London and backward Virginia, two twin brothers from the nobility spend their formative period trying to flee a domineering dowager mother in… |
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The Newcomes
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William Makepeace Thackeray |
The Newcomes is Thackeray's most essentially 'Victorian' novel, generous in its proportions, sharp in its criticism of the moral convolutions of the age, and encyclopaedic in its reference. Set in th… |
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Essays - English and American - Volume 28
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Edward Augustus Freeman,Thomas Henry Huxley,James Russell Lowell,John Henry Newman,Walter Bagehot,Matthew Arnold,William Ellery Channing,Henry David Thoreau,John Ruskin,William Makepeace Thackeray,Robert Louis Stevenson,Edgar Allan Poe,Charles W. Eliot |
Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Virginia and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. |
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Vanity Fair
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William Makepeace Thackeray |
19th century novel which satirizes the English society of the time. |
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Heroic War Stories
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Alistair MacLean,Robert Graves,Richard Hillary,Erich Maria Remarque,H. G. Wells,Cecil Woodham Smith,Airey Neave,David Niven,Arthur Conan Doyle,Larry Forrester,Guy Gibson,Joseph Conrad,Ambrose Bierce,H. E. Bates,Norman Mailer,William Makepeace Thackeray,Stephen Crane,David Niven,Lev Nikolaevič Tolstoy,Joseph Heller,Nicholas Monsarrat,Richard Alexander Hough,P. C. Wren,Frederic Manning |
Fair stood the wind for France / H.E. Bates --
How Brigadier Gerard won his medal / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle --
The Invaders (from The Last enemy) / Richard Hillary -
The War of the worlds / H.G. We… |
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