The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)

By William Makepeace Thackeray

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• Release date: Jul 17, 2017
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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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The Complete Works of

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

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The Rose and the Ring

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‘The Rose and the Ring’

William Makepeace Thackeray: Parts Edition (in 70 parts)

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WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

IN 70 VOLUMES

Parts Edition Contents

The Novels

1, Catherine

2, A Shabby Genteel Story

3, The Luck of Barry Lyndon

4, Vanity Fair

5, The History of Pendennis

6, Men’s Wives

7, The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.

8, The Newcomes

9, The Virginians

10, Lovel the Widower

11, The Adventures of Philip

12, Denis Duval

The Shorter Fiction

13, Elizabeth Brownrigge

14, Sultan Stork

15, Little Spitz

16, The Professor

17, Miss Löwe

18, The Yellowplush Papers

19, The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan

20, The Fatal Boots

21, Cox’s Diary

22, The Bedford-Row Conspiracy

23, The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond

24, The Fitz-Boodle Papers

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

26, A Legend of the Rhine

27, A Little Dinner at Timmins’s

28, Rebecca and Rowena

29, Bluebeard’s Ghost

The Christmas Books

30, Mrs. Perkins’s Ball

31, Our Street

32, Doctor Birch and His Young Friends

33, The Kickleburys on the Rhine

34, The Rose and the Ring

The Sketches and Satires

35, Contributions to The Snob

36, Flore Et Zephyr

37, The Irish Sketch Book

38, The Book of Snobs

39, Roundabout Papers

40, Some Roundabout Papers

41, Dickens in France

42, Character Sketches

43, Sketches and Travels in London

44, Mr. Brown’s Letters

45, The Proser

46, Miscellanies

The Play

47, The Wolves and the Lamb

The Poetry

48, The Poetry of William Makepeace Thackeray

The Travel Writing

49, Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo

50, The Paris Sketch Book

51, Little Travels and Roadside Sketches

The Non-Fiction

52, Novels by Eminent Hands

53, The History of the Next French Revolution

54, The Second Funeral of Napoleon

55, George Cruikshank

56, John Leech’s Pictures of Life and Character

57, The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century

58, The Four Georges

59, Critical Reviews

60, A Lecture on Charity and Humour

61, Various Essays, Letters, Sketches, Etc.

62, The History of Dionysius Diddler.

63, Contributions to Punch

64, Miss Tickletoby’s Lectures on English History

65, Papers by the Fat Contributor

66, Miscellaneous Contributions to Punch

67, Spec and Proser Papers

68, A Plan for a Prize Novel

The Letters

69, A Collection of Letters 1847-1855

The Biography

70, Thackeray by Anthony Trollope

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The Rose and the Ring

A FIRE-SIDE PANTOMIME FOR GREAT AND SMALL CHILDREN

THE ROSE AND THE RING

CONTENTS

I. SHOWS HOW THE ROYAL FAMILY SAT DOWN TO BREAKFAST

II. HOW KING VALOROSO GOT THE CROWN, AND PRINCE GIGLIO WENT WITHOUT.

III. TELLS WHO THE FAIRY BLACKSTICK WAS, AND WHO WERE EVER SO MANY GRAND PERSONAGES BESIDES.

IV. HOW BLACKSTICK WAS NOT ASKED TO THE PRINCESS ANGELICA’S CHRISTENING.

V. HOW PRINCESS ANGELICA TOOK A LITTLE MAID.

VI. HOW PRINCE GIGLIO BEHAVED HIMSELF.

VII. HOW GIGLIO AND ANGELICA HAD A QUARREL.

VIII. HOW GRUFFANUFF PICKED THE FAIRY RING UP, AND PRINCE BULBO CAME TO COURT.

IX. HOW BETSINDA GOT THE WARMING PAN.

X. HOW KING VALOROSO WAS IN A DREADFUL PASSION.

XI. WHAT GRUFFANUFF DID TO GIGLIO AND BETSINDA.

XII. HOW BETSINDA FLED, AND WHAT BECAME OF HER.

XIII. HOW QUEEN ROSALBA CAME TO THE CASTLE OF THE BOLD COUNT HOGGINARMO.

XIV. WHAT BECAME OF GIGLIO.

XV. WE RETURN TO ROSALBA.

XVI. HOW HEDZOFF RODE BACK AGAIN TO KING GIGLIO.

XVII. HOW A TREMENDOUS BATTLE TOOK PLACE, AND WHO WON IT.

XVIII. HOW THEY ALL JOURNEYED BACK TO THE CAPITAL.

XIX. AND NOW WE COME TO THE LAST SCENE IN THE PANTOMIME.

THE ROSE AND THE RING

BY MR. M. A. TITMARSH

PRELUDE

It happened that the undersigned spent the last Christmas season in a foreign city where there were many English children.

In that city, if you wanted to give a child’s party, you could not even get a magic-lantern or buy Twelfth-Night characters — those funny painted pictures of the King, the Queen, the Lover, the Lady, the Dandy, the Captain, and so on — with which our young ones are wont to recreate themselves at this festive time.

My friend Miss Bunch, who was governess of a large family that lived in the Piano Nobile of the house inhabited by myself and my young charges (it was the Palazzo Poniatowski at Rome, and Messrs. Spillmann, two of the best pastry-cooks in Christendom, have their shop on the ground floor): Miss Bunch, I say, begged me to draw a set of Twelfth-Night characters for the amusement of our young people.

She is a lady of great fancy and droll imagination, and having looked at the characters, she and I composed a history about them, which was recited to the little folks at night, and served as our FIRE-SIDE PANTOMIME.

Our juvenile audience was amused by the adventures of Giglio and Bulbo, Rosalba and Angelica. I am bound to say the fate of the Hall Porter created a considerable sensation; and the wrath of Countess Gruffanuff was received with extreme pleasure.

If these children are pleased, thought I, why should not others be amused also? In a few days Dr. Birch’s young friends will be expected to reassemble at Rodwell Regis, where they will learn everything that is useful, and under the eyes of careful ushers continue the business of their little lives.

But, in the meanwhile, and for a brief holiday, let us laugh and be as pleasant as we can. And you elder folk — a little joking, and dancing, and fooling will do even you no harm. The author wishes you a merry Christmas, and welcomes you to the Fire-side Pantomime.

M. A. TITMARSH.

December 1854.

THE ROSE AND THE RING

I. SHOWS HOW THE ROYAL FAMILY SAT DOWN TO BREAKFAST

This is Valoroso XXIV., King of Paflagonia, seated with his Queen and only child at their royal breakfast-table, and receiving the letter which announces to his Majesty a proposed visit from Prince Bulbo, heir of Padella, reigning King of Crim Tartary. Remark the delight upon the monarch’s royal features. He is so absorbed in the perusal of the King of Crim Tartary’s letter, that he allows his eggs to get cold, and leaves his august muffins untasted.

What! that wicked, brave, delightful Prince Bulbo! cries Princess Angelica; so handsome, so accomplished, so witty — the conqueror of Rimbombamento, where he slew ten thousand giants!

Who told you of him, my dear? asks his Majesty.

A little bird, says Angelica.

Poor Giglio! says mamma, pouring out the tea.

Bother Giglio! cries Angelica, tossing up her head, which rustled with a thousand curl-papers.

I wish, growls the King— I wish Giglio was. . .

Was better? Yes, dear, he is better, says the Queen. Angelica’s little maid, Betsinda, told me so when she came to my room this morning with my early tea.

You are always drinking tea, said the monarch, with a scowl.

It is better than drinking port or brandy-and-water, replies her Majesty.

Well, well, my dear, I only said you were fond of drinking tea, said the King of Paflagonia, with an effort as if to command his temper. Angelica! I hope you have plenty of new dresses; your milliners’ bills are long enough. My dear Queen, you must see and have some parties. I prefer dinners, but of course you will be for balls. Your everlasting blue velvet quite tires me: and, my love, I should like you to have a new necklace. Order one. Not more than a hundred or a hundred and fifty thousand pounds.

And Giglio, dear? says the Queen.

GIGLIO MAY GO TO THE — —

Oh, sir! screams her Majesty. Your own nephew! our late King’s only son.

"Giglio may go to the tailor’s, and order the bills to be sent in to Glumboso to pay. Confound him! I mean bless his dear