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Catherine : a story /
Though he originally set out to depict criminals in as harshly accurate a light as possible, without the sentimentalization that he saw and disdained in Dickens' work, Thackeray's fictionalized account of the life of Catherine Hayes, an eighteenth-century woman who was burned at the stake...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Auckland :
Floating Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Chapter I. Introducing to the reader the chief personages of this narrative
- Chapter II. In which are depicted the pleasures of a sentimental attachment
- Chapter III. In which a narcotic is administered, and a great deal of genteel society depicted
- Chapter IV. In which Mrs. Catherine becomes an honest woman again
- Chapter V. Contains Mr. Brock's autobiography, and other matters
- Chapter VI. Adventures of the Ambassador, Mr. Macshane
- Chapter VII. Which embraces a period of seven years
- Chapter VIII. Enumerates the accomplishments of Master Thomas Billings; introduces Brock as Doctor Wood; and announces the execution of Ensign Macshane
- Chapter IX. Interview between Count Galgenstein and Master Thomas Billings, when he informs the Count of his parentage
- Chapter X. Showing how Galgenstein and Mrs. Cat recognize each other in Marylebone Gardens; and how the Count drives her home in his carriage
- Chapter XI. Of some domestic quarrels, and the consequence thereof
- Chapter XII. Treats of love, and prepares for death
- Chapter XIII. Being a preparation for the end
- Chapter the last
- Another last chapter
- Endnotes.