Showing posts with label THACKERAY William. Show all posts
Showing posts with label THACKERAY William. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 29, 2013

A scary ghost story from Thackeray - HE, I promise you, won't stand any nonsense

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I almost forgot to do my Halloween reading, but then I remembered, so tonight’s text is “The Notch on the Ax” by William Makepeace Thackeray...
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Wednesday, December 1, 2010

"And I shall be deservedly hanged," say you, wishing to put an end to this prosing. - clever Thackeray

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Perhaps I should mention that, whatever yesterday’s post might have suggested, I’m not so sure that Henry Esmond is William Thackeray’s bes...
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Nobody reads it. - Henry Esmond, Thackeray's best book - a survey of opinion

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Kind-hearted commenters have directed me to many other writers who have expressed their high opinion of The History of Henry Esmond .  Vir...
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Monday, November 29, 2010

The conceptual purity of Thackeray's Henry Esmond

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An idly curious question, to begin, for any English professors who wander by: is William Thackeray’s The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. (185...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Nefarious novelists manipulate their readers' demand for sympathetic characters

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Really, here's the most important reason to be careful about indulging in the entirely natural impulse to sympathize with the admirable ...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009

My mascot, Little William Thackeray - don't take it all so seriously

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Since I have been commending myself for my exemplary humility, I will take the opportunity to explain the internet icon I have been using fo...
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Friday, December 5, 2008

Are the Christmas books of Charles Dickens Christian? How about Vanity Fair?

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What got me thinking about all this was, among other things, Charles Dickens’s second Christmas book, The Chimes (1844), his follow-up to t...
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