The History of Pendennis : His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy (The World's Classics)

The History of Pendennis : His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy (The World's Classics)

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One of the earliest and greatest of the Victorian Bildungsroman, this introspective novel treats London's bohemian and literary underworld and the romantic entanglements of its hero, Arthur Pendennis, with comic and uninhibited style. Son of a selfless widow, Pendennis moves from one
disastrous romantic involvement to another on the fringes of the corrupt upper classes. Thackeray had slaved for ten years in this literary bohemia; the introduction considers the parallels between Thackeray's life and the novel, and examines the changes taking place in Victorian England throughout
the years of the story.

The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy (The World's Classics),William Makepeace Thackeray,John Sutherland,Oxford University Press, USA,0192831682,England,Fiction,General,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature: Classics,Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863,Young men,19th century fiction,Fiction / Classics

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