The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes And Misfortunes, His Friends And His Greatest Enemy (English Library) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes And Misfortunes, His Friends And His Greatest Enemy (English Library) Book

A portrait of England in the 1830s and 40s. It presents the character of Pendennis and the world in which he lives: from miserable schoolboy to striving journalist from carefree Oxbridge to the high (and low) life of London.Read More

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  • Penguin

    Written immediately after Vanity Fair, Pendennis has a similar atmosphere of brooding disillusion, tempered by the most jovial of wits.

  • Product Description

    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.

  • 0140430768
  • 9780140430769
  • J. Stewart, William Thackeray
  • 26 June 1986
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 816
  • Reissue
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