Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray

Thackeray was a giant of Victorian literature, creating bestselling novels that rivaled Dickens for popularity and satires that remain as hilarious and original today as when they were first published. This comprehensive eBook aims to reveal the true genius of this master storyteller, featuring the complete works, with beautiful illustrations and special bonus texts. (Version 5)



* illustrated with over 1000 images, relating to Thackeray’s life and works

* annotated with concise introductions to the novels and other texts

* images of how the monthly serials first appeared, giving your eReader a taste of the original Victorian texts

* ALL 12 novels, many with their original illustrations

* even includes the rare unfinished novel ‘A Shabby Genteel Story’

* also includes the rare novels ‘Lovel the Widower’, ‘Adventures of Philip’ and the unfinished novel ‘Denis Duval’, often missed out of collections

* ALL of the short stories and novellas, with excellent formatting

* explore Thackeray’s illustrated Christmas Books

* even INCLUDES Thackeray’s poetry, essays and Punch articles – all with their own special contents tables

* ALL of the travel writing and sketches, with many illustrations – spend hours poring over images from a bygone age

* includes Trollope’s biography of Thackeray – explore the great man’s amazing life

* Dickens’ memorial article on Thackeray

* scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres

* master table of contents to allow easy navigation around Thackeray’s immense oeuvre.

* includes Thackeray’s Collected Letters from 1847-1855 – explore Mrs Brookfield’s personal collection of epistles published over 20 years after Thackeray’s death

* UPDATED with improved texts, images and Leslie Stephen’s biography



CONTENTS



The Novels

Catherine

A Shabby Genteel Story

The Luck of Barry Lyndon

Vanity Fair

The History of Pendennis

Men’s Wives

The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.

The Newcomes

The Virginians

Lovel the Widower

The Adventures of Philip

Denis Duval



The Shorter Fiction

Elizabeth Brownrigge

Sultan Stork

Little Spitz

The Professor

Miss L?we

The Yellowplush Papers

The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan

The Fatal Boots

Cox’s Diary

The Bedford-Row Conspiracy

The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond

The Fitz-Boodle Papers

The Diary of C. Jeames de La Pluche, Esq. with His Letters

A Legend of the Rhine

A Little Dinner at Timmins’s

Rebecca and Rowena

Bluebeard’s Ghost



The Christmas Books

Mrs. Perkins’s Ball

Our Street

Doctor Birch and His Young Friends

The Kickleburys on the Rhine

The Rose and the Ring



The Sketches and Satires

Contributions to ‘The Snob’

Flore et Zephyr

The Irish Sketch Book

The Book of Snobs

Roundabout Papers

Some Roundabout Papers

Dickens in France

Character Sketches

Sketches and Travels in London

Mr. Brown’s Letters

The Proser

Miscellanies



The Play

The Wolves and the Lamb



The Poetry

The Poetry of William Makepeace Thackeray



The Travel Writing

Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo

The Paris Sketch Book

Little Travels and Roadside Sketches



The Non-Fiction

Novels by Eminent Hands

The History of the Next French Revolution

The Second Funeral of Napoleon

George Cruikshank

John Leech’s Pictures of Life and Character

The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century

The Four Georges



Critical Reviews

A Lecture on ‘Charity and Humour’

Various Essays, Letters, Sketches, Etc.

The History of Dionysius Diddler.

Contributions to Punch

Miss Tickletoby’s Lectures on English History

Papers by the Fat Contributor

Miscellaneous Contributions to ‘Punch’

‘Spec’ and ‘Proser’ Papers

A Plan for a Prize Novel



The Letters

A Collection of Letters 1847-1855



The Biographies

Thackeray by Anthony Trollope

William Makepeace Thackeray by Leslie Stephen

In Memoriam W. M. Thackeray by Charles Dickens



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