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Catherine
Catherine
Catherine
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Catherine

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This vintage book contains William Thackeray's 1840 novel, "Catherine". Originally serialized in Fraser's Magazine between 1839 and 1840, it is an example of Thackeray's attempts to criticize the Newgate school of crime fiction, which Thackeray believed championed and glorified criminality. So strong did he feel about this, that he even criticized Dickens for his various portrayals of good-hearted streetwalkers and charming pickpockets. A masterfully-written and brutally gritty novel, Catherine is recommended for fans of crime fiction, and is not to be missed by fans of Thackeray's seminal work. The chapters of this volume include: "Introducing to the Reader the chief Personage of this Narrative", "In Which are Depicted the Pleasure of a Sentimental Attachment", "In Which a Narcotic is Administered, and a Great Deal of Genteel Society Depicted", "In Which Mrs. Catherine Becomes an Honest Woman Again", etcetera. Many antiquarian texts such as this are increasingly hard to come by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
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Release dateNov 3, 2015
ISBN9781473374256
Catherine
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William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) was a multitalented writer and illustrator born in British India. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, where some of his earliest writings appeared in university periodicals. As a young adult he encountered various financial issues including the failure of two newspapers. It wasn’t until his marriage in 1836 that he found direction in both his life and career. Thackeray regularly contributed to Fraser's Magazine, where he debuted a serialized version of one of his most popular novels, The Luck of Barry Lyndon. He spent his decades-long career writing novels, satirical sketches and art criticism.

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    This seems to be Thackeray as moralist. The preceding decade had seen an explosion in the new genre of crime novels which he believed had glorified criminals and raised lowlifes to hero status, culminating, at least in a literary sense, with the very recently published Oliver Twist. In this, his second novel after the highly amusing Yellowplush Papers, Thackeray set out to counteract what he saw as this pernicious trend.His intention seems to have been to present banal lowlifes as exactly that. He succeeded so well that he created a very dull book about singularly unattractive and unappealing characters.
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    Not a good book. Poor story, uninteresting characters, boring in all respects and the author constantly interrupts the story with silly comments of his own. Disappointing, coming from Thackeray, but I think it was his first novel.

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