Catherine : a story / / William Makepeace Thackeray
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| Autore: |
Thackeray William Makepeace <1811-1863.>
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| Titolo: |
Catherine : a story / / William Makepeace Thackeray
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| Pubblicazione: | [Auckland, New Zealand] : , : The Floating Press, , 1839 |
| 2010 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 823.8 |
| Soggetto topico: | Executions and executioners |
| Women murderers | |
| Biographical fiction | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain History Anne, 1702-1714 Fiction |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 Years |
| Chapter 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; Endnotes | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Though 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... |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Catherine |
| ISBN: | 1-77651-508-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910815890803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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