The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy, Volume 1

William Makepeace Thackeray

M. Doolady, 1867 - 480 pagina's

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• Chapter: 11
• Pendennis of BONIFACE: 112
• NEW FACES: 135
• XXIIIA LITTLE INNOCENT: 145
• CONTAINS BOTH Love and JEALOUSY: 151
• CONTAINS SOME BALLPRACTISING: 165
• BABYLON: 179
• THE KNIGHTS OF THE TEMPLE: 185
• IN WHICH THE PRINTERS DEVIL COMES TO THE DOOR: 198
• IN WHICH THE HISTORY Still hovers ABOUT FLEET STREET: 212
• Chapter Page XXXVI WHERE PEN APPEARS IN TOWN AND COUNTRY: 226
• IN WHICH THE SYLPH REAPPEARS: 235
• IN WHICH COLONEL ALTAMONT APPEARS AND DISAPPEARS: 240
• RELATES TO MR HARRY FOKERS AFFAIRS: 246
• CARRIES THE READER BOTH TO RICHMOND AND GREENWICH: 253
• CONTAINS A NOVEL INCIDENT: 258
• ALSATIA: 265
• IN WHICH THE COLONEL NARRATES SOME OF HIS ADVENTURES: 270
• A CHAPTER OF CONVERSATIONS: 277
• MISS AMORYS PARTNERS: 285
• MONSEIGNEUR SAMUSE: 292
• A VISIT OF POLITENESS: 301
• IN SHEPHERDS INN: 305
• IN OR NEAR THE TEMPLE GARDEN: 309
• THE HAPPY VILLAGE AGAIN: 314
• WHICH HAD VERY NEARLY BEEN THE LAST OF THE STORY: 318
• A CRITICAL CHAPTER: 325
• CONVALESCENCE: 331
• FANNYS OCCUPATION GONE: 338
• IN WHICH FANNY ENGAGES A NEW MEDICAL MAN: 345
• FOREIGN GROUND: 352
• FAIROAKS TO LET: 359
• OLD FRIENDS: 366
• EXPLANATIONS: 374
• CONVERSATIONS: 378
• THE WAY OF THE World: 387
• WHICH ACCOUNTS PERHAPS FOR CHAPTER LXI: 396
• PHILLIS AND CORYDON: 404
• TEMPTATION: 407
• IN WHICH PEN BEGINS HIS CANVAS: 414
• IN WHICH PEN BEGINS TO DOUBT HIS ELECTION: 420
• IN WHICH THE MAJOR IS BIDDEN TO STAND AND DELIVER: 428
• IN WHICH THE MAJOR NEITHER YIELDS HIS MONEY NOR HIS LIFE: 434
• LXIXIN WHICH PENDENNIS COUNTS HIS EGGS: 439
• FIAT JUSTITIA: 443
• IN WHICH THE DECKS BEGIN TO CLEAR: 448
• MR AND MRS SAM HUXTER: 453
• SHOWS HOW ARTHUR HAD BETTER HAVE TAKEN A RETURN TICKET: 459
• A CHAPTER OF MATCHMAKING: 463
• EXEUNT OMNES: 468

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Pagina 468 - I do not like thee, Dr Fell. The reason why I cannot tell, But this I know, I know full well, I do not like thee, Dr Fell.

Pagina 389 - ... :—I see the truth in that man, as I do in his brother, whose logic drives him to quite a different conclusion, and who, after having passed a life in vain endeavours to reconcile an irreconcilable book, flings it at last down in despair, and declares, with tearful eyes, and hands up to heaven, his revolt and recantation.

Pagina 468 - The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom 'twere gross flattery to name a coward.

Pagina 388 - ... and what a listless spectator yourself! You are sixand-twenty years old, and as blase as a rake of sixty. You neither hope much, nor care much, nor believe much. You doubt about other men as much as about yourself. Were it made of such pococuranti as you, the world would be intolerable ; and I had rather live in a wilderness of monkeys, and listen to their chatter, than in a company of men who denied everything." "Were the world composed of Saint Bernards or Saint Dominies, it would be equally...

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Bibliografische gegevens

• Titel: The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy, Volume 1; Oxford Thackeray with illustrations
• Auteur: William Makepeace Thackeray
• Uitgever: M. Doolady, 1867
• Oorspronkelijk uit: Harvard University
• Gedigitaliseerd: 21 feb 2008
• Lengte: 480 pagina's