03208nam 2200565 450 991081589080332120200520144314.01-77651-508-0(CKB)3710000000060050(EBL)655186(OCoLC)701704981(SSID)ssj0000633115(PQKBManifestationID)11393587(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000633115(PQKBWorkID)10616458(PQKB)11457920(MiAaPQ)EBC655186(Au-PeEL)EBL655186(CaPaEBR)ebr10796809(EXLCZ)99371000000006005020131205h18392010 uy 1engur|n|---|||||txtccrCatherine a story /William Makepeace Thackeray[Auckland, New Zealand] :The Floating Press,1839.20101 online resource (289 p.)Description based upon print version of record.Title; Contents; Chapter I - Introducing to the Reader the Chief Personages of this Narrative; Chapter II - In Which Are Depicted the Pleasures of a Sentimental Attachment; Chapter III - In Which a Narcotic is Administered, and a Great Deal of Genteel Society Depicted; Chapter IV - In Which Mrs. Catherine Becomes an Honest Woman Again; Chapter V - Contains Mr. Brock's Autobiography, and Other Matters; Chapter VI - Adventures of the Ambassador, Mr. Macshane; Chapter VII - Which Embraces a Period of Seven YearsChapter VIII - Enumerates the Accomplishments of Master Thomas Billings-Introduces Brock as Doctor Wood-And Announces the ExecutChapter IX - Interview Between Count Galgenstein and Master Thomas Billings, When He Informs the Count of His Parentage; Chapter X - Showing How Galgenstein and Mrs. Cat Recognise Each Other in Marylebone Gardens-And How the Count Drives Her Home in; Chapter XI - Of Some Domestic Quarrels, and the Consequence Thereof; Chapter XII - Treats of Love, and Prepares for Death; Chapter XIII - Being a Preparation for the End; Chapter the Last; Another Last Chapter; EndnotesThough he originally set out to depict criminals in as harshly accurate a light as possible, without the sentimentalization that he saw and disdained in Dickens' work, Thackeray's fictionalized account of the life of Catherine Hayes, an eighteenth-century woman who was burned at the stake for the murder of her husband, depicts the titular character in a somewhat more appealing and charming manner than the author intended. A must-read for fans of rollicking picaresque tales such as...Executions and executionersFictionWomen murderersFictionBiographical fictionGreat BritainHistoryAnne, 1702-1714FictionExecutions and executionersWomen murderersBiographical fiction.823.8Thackeray William Makepeace1811-1863.163526MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815890803321Catherine2743342UNINA