The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Band 3

William Makepeace Thackeray

Smith, Elder & Company, 1879

Inhalt

• CHAPTER: 1
• A PEDIGREE AND OTHER FAMILY MATTERS: 6
• In which PENDENNIS APPEARS AS A VERY YOUNG MAN INDEED: 24
• IV Mrs HALLER: 36
• Mrs HALLER AT HOME: 46
• CONTAINS BOTH LOVE AND WAR: 60
• IN WHICH THE MAJOR MAKES HIS APPEARANCE: 72
• PAGE: 74
• IN WHICH PEN IS KEPT WAITING AT THE Door WHILE THE READER IS INFORMED WHO LITTLE LAURA WAS: 80
• IN WHICH THE MAJOR OPENS THE CAMPAIGN: 92
• FACING THE ENEMY: 100
• NEGOTIATION: 107
• IN WHICH A SHOOTINGMATCH IS PROPOSED: 117
• A Crisis: 126
• IN WHICH Miss FOTHERINGAY MAKES A NEW EN GAGEMENT: 135
• XV THE HAPPY VILLAGE: 144
• Which CONCLUDES THE FIRST PART OF THIS History: 156
• Alma Mater: 174
• PENDENNIS OF BONIFACE: 184
• RAKES PROGRESS: 198
• FLIGHT AFTER DEFEAT: 206
• PRODIGALS RETURN: 215
• New FACES: 225
• A LITTLE INNOCENT: 244
• CONTAINS BOTH LOVE AND JEALOUSY: 254
• A HOUSE FULL OF VISITORS: 265
• CONTAINS SOME BALLPRACTISING: 280
• WHICH IS BOTH QUARRELSOME AND SENTIMENTAL: 290
• Babylon: 306
• THE KNIGHTS OF THE TEMPLE: 318
• OLD AND NEW ACQUAINTANCES: 328
• IN WHICH THE PRINTERS DEVII COMES TO THE DOOR: 341
• Which is PASSED IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF LUD GATE HILL: 355
• IN WHICH THE HISTORY STILL HOVERS ABOUT FLEET STREET: 367
• A DINNER IN THE Row: 374
• THE Pall Mall GAZETTE: 385
• WHERE PEN APPEARS IN TOWN AND COUNTRY: 392
• IN WHICH THE SYLPH REAPPEARS: 409
• In which Colonel Altamont AppeaRS AND DIS APPEARS: 418

Beliebte Passagen

Seite 348 - ALTHOUGH I enter not, Yet round about the spot Ofttimes I hover ; And near the sacred gate, With longing eyes I wait, Expectant of her.

Seite 69 - It is best to love wisely, no doubt : but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. Some of us can't : and are proud of our impotence too. At the end of his speech, Pen again kissed the imperial hand with rapture — and I believe it was at this very moment, and while Mrs.

Seite 335 - Healthy country tradesmen and farmers, in London for their business, came and recreated themselves with the jolly singing and suppers of the Back Kitchen ; — squads of young apprentices and assistants, the shutters being closed over the scene of their labours, came hither, for fresh air doubtless ; — rakish young medical students, gallant, dashing, what is called

Seite 239 - ... it. But she had dark eyebrows. She had long black eyelashes, which veiled beautiful brown eyes. She had such a slim waist, that it was a wonder to behold ; and such slim little feet, that you would have thought the grass would hardly bend under them. Her lips were of the colour of faint rosebud1;, and her voice warbled limpidly over a set of the sweetest little pearly teeth ever seen.

Seite 348 - Kneel, undisturb'd, fair Saint ! Pour out your praise or plaint Meekly and duly ; I will not enter there, To sully your pure prayer With thoughts unruly.

Seite 147 - Clavering westwards towards the sea — the place appears to be so cheery and comfortable that many a traveller's heart must have yearned towards it from the coach-top, and he must have thought that it was in such a calm friendly nook he would like to shelter at the end of life's struggle.

Seite 41 - Pen said. " She's speaking." She began her business in a deep sweet voice. Those who know the play of the " Stranger " are aware that the remarks made by the various characters are not valuable in themselves, either for their sound sense, their novelty of observation, or their poetic fancy. Nobody ever talked so. If we meet idiots in life, as will happen, it is a great mercy that they do not use such absurdly fine words. The Stranger's talk is sham, like the book he reads, and the hair he wears,...

Seite 413 - When nobody was near, our little Sylphide, who scarcely ate at dinner more than the six grains of rice of Amina, the friend of the Ghouls in the Arabian Nights, was most active with her knife and fork, and consumed a very substantial portion of mutton cutlets : in which piece of hypocrisy it is believed she resembled other young ladies of fashion. Pen and his uncle declined the refection, but they admired the dining-room with fitting compliments, and pronounced it " very chaste," that being the proper...

Bibliografische Informationen

• Titel: The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Band 3; The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, William Makepeace Thackeray; Band 3 von “The” Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: In Twenty-four Volumes, William Makepeace Thackeray
• Autor/in: William Makepeace Thackeray
• Verlag: Smith, Elder & Company, 1879
• Original von: New York Public Library
• Digitalisiert: 3. Nov. 2006