| Author |
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 |
| Title |
Roundabout Papers
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| Contents |
On a lazy idle boy -- On two children in black -- On ribbons -- On some late great victories -- Thorns in the cushion -- On screens in dining-rooms -- Tunbridge toys -- De juventute -- On a joke I once heard from the late Thomas Hood -- Round about the Christmas tree -- On a chalk-mark on the door -- On being found out -- On a hundred years hence -- Small-beer chronicle -- Ogres -- On two roundabout papers which I intend to write -- A Mississippi bubble -- On Letts's diary -- Notes of a week's holiday -- Nil nisi bonum -- On half a loaf: A letter to Messrs. Broadway, Battery and Co., of New York, Bankers -- The notch on the Axe: a story à la mode -- De finibus -- On a peal of bells -- On a pear-tree -- Dessein's -- On some carp at Sans Souci -- Autour de mon chapeau -- On Alexandrines: a letter to some country cousins -- On a medal of George the Fourth -- "Strange to say, on Club paper" -- The last sketch.
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| Language |
English |
| LoC Class |
PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
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| Subject |
Great Britain -- Social life and customs
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| Subject |
London (England) -- Description and travel
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| Subject |
English essays -- 19th century
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| Category |
Text |
| EBook-No. |
2608 |
| Release Date |
May 22, 2006 |
| Copyright Status |
Public domain in the USA. |
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