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Novels By Eminent Hands

Novels By Eminent Hands

Thackeray, William Makepeace

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Classic FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1419137557
ISBN13: 9781419137556
Publisher: Kessinger Pub Llc
Published: Jun 17 2004
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.22 Width: 7.48 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
Novels By Eminent Hands is a collection of satirical short stories written by the renowned British author William Makepeace Thackeray. The book features a series of parodies of popular literary genres of the time, including Gothic novels, historical romances, and sentimental novels. Thackeray's wit and humor are on full display in this collection, as he skewers the conventions and cliches of these genres with his trademark irony and sarcasm. The stories are populated by a cast of colorful characters, including vain aristocrats, hapless heroes, and scheming villains. Novels By Eminent Hands is a must-read for fans of Thackeray's work, as well as anyone interested in the history of English literature and the evolution of literary genres.Reglar every evening there came to the Constantanople a young gent etired in the igth of fashn; and indead presenting by the cleanlyness of his appearants and linning (which was generally a pink or blew shurt, with a cricketer or a dansuse pattern) rather a contrast to the dinjy and whistkcard sosaity of the Diwann. As for wiskars, this young mann had none beyond a little yallow tought to his chin, which you woodn notas, only he was always pulling at it.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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