The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan is Thackeray's fictionalized account of Ramon Cabrera, a general of the Carlist forces during the Spanish Seven Year War of 1833. Noted for his valour...
Set in the second half of the eighteenth century, Barry Lyndon is the fictional autobiography of an adventurer and rogue whom the reader is led to distrust from the very beginning. Born into the...
Thackeray contributed regularly to Fraser's Magazine, Morning Chronicle, New Monthly Magazine and The Times. His writings attracted first attention in Punch, where he satirized...
At that famous period of history, when the seventeenth century (after a deal of quarrelling, king-killing, reforming, republicanising, restoring, re-restoring, play-writing, sermon- writing,...
Notes on a voyage around the Mediterranean taken by the author in the autumn of 1844. Ports visited include Malta, Athens, Smyrna, Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Cairo.
Orphaned in the England of the later Stuarts, Henry Esmonde is raised by his aristocratic, Jacobite relatives the Castlewoods. As a young man he falls in love with both Lady Castlewood and Beatrix, her...
