Der Diener Yellowplush lebt zusammen mit seinem Herrn Frederick Altamont zur Untermiete bei der Familie Shum in London. Frederick Altamont hat sich unsterblich in Mary, die...
Vanity Fair
One of the great Victorian novels by an author at the height of his powers, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of the calculating, upwardly-mobile Becky Sharp and her gentle,...
The Book Of Snobs
In The Book of Snobs, William Makepeace Thackeray delivers a witty and incisive satire exposing the pervasive snobbery of Victorian society. Through a series of sharp, humorous...
Burlesques
THE ANNOUNCEMENT.On the 1st of January, 1838, I was the master of a lovely shop in the neighborhood of Oxford Market; of a wife, Mrs. Cox; of a business, both in the shaving and...
Barry Lyndon
Barry Lyndon is a picaresque novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844, about a member of the Irish gentry trying to become a...
The Virginians
The Virginians follows the diverging paths of twin brothers George and Henry Warrington, born into a genteel English family with ties to colonial Virginia. Set against the...
Henry Esmond: The English Humourists; The Four Georges
Henry Esmond is a historical novel set in early 18th-century England, following the life of Henry Esmond, a loyal, honorable man entangled in the political and domestic intrigues...
Vanity Fair
Step into the "Fair" where everyone is striving for what is not worth having in this panoramic satire of English society. The novel traces the parallel lives of the passive Amelia...
The Luck Of Barry Lyndon
Redmond Barry recounts his own rise from a penniless Irish boy to a man of fashion and fortune in this masterful example of the unreliable narrator. While he portrays himself as a...
Barry Lyndon
Barry Lyndon follows the cunning rise and tragic fall of an Irish rogue who schemes his way into wealth, nobility, and high society through deception, duels, and marriage....
