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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Publisher: Dent; Publication date: 1903; Subjects: Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Literary; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; ... Read more

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A collection of verse from Dickens, English novelist, and considered by many to be the greatest of his country, known for his works that indicted society's mistreatment and abuse of the poor, especially children; and Thackeray, English novelist and satirist, best remembered for his satirical and moralistic studies of upper and middle-class English life. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature. ... Read more

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Becky Sharp is the most alluring yet ruthless heroine ever to climb the social ladder. From sordid bohemian beginnings she moves upwards through Regency society, betraying her husband, her friend Amelia and all who cross her in her determination to acquire power. In post-war London after Waterloo, Becky continues her manipulative schemes but finds herself thwarted by personal and social forces. ... Read more

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Publisher: London ; New York : Henry Frowde, Oxford University PressSubjects: Ballads, EnglishNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Since that fatal but delightful night in Grosvenor placeMr. Harry Fokers heart had been in such a state of agitation as you would hardly have thought so great a philosopher could endure. ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Scott, Foresman and company in 1911 in 278 pages; Subjects: English literature; Humorists, English; Literary Criticism / General; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; ... Read more

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A saga of two brothers
_The Virginians_, a sequel to William M. Thackeray's _Henry Esmond_, is a fictional history of Henry Esmond's daughter, Madam Esmond of Castlewood estate in Virginia, and her twin sons, George and Henry (a/k/a Harry or Hal) Warrington.George, born a half hour before his brother Harry could not have been more different from his brother.George loved books and had a more earnest, serious and introspective disposition than the younger Harry, who loved sports, gambling (especially card playing) and had an out-going and fun loving nature.George was also a playwright, if not an altogether successful one.For a long while Harry is believed to be the soul surviving brother and heir to Castlewood, and is treated by everyone as such.For all their differences, no two brothers ever loved or were as devoted to one another more.

This long and sometimes meandering, but often energetically narrated novel, set both in England and in Virginia, recounts the brothers' relationships with their class-conscious British cousins, particularly Harry's with his cousins Maria, with whom he has dutifully promised to marry, and Will, as irrascible and unpleasant a man as one is likely to meet in a novel.The saintly Lambert family, who nurse Harry back to health after he falls from a horse become thereafter a very important part of Harry's life.

The French and Indian Wars in North America and the American Revolution form a critical backdrop in the novel and provide some of its most stirring scenes.George and Harry fight on opposite sides during the Revolution, with George taking the side of the Royalists loyal to King George III and Harry eventually becoming a general, serving alongside George Washington.Washington is presented up close and in person as never before seen in a novel, first as a young man and potential suitor to the brothers' widowed mother, and later as the mature commander-in-chief of the Continental Army of the new American Republic.While Madam Esmond is generally an unsympathetic and meddlesome woman, especially regarding potential marriages of her sons to women she finds unsuitable, she is undoubtedly courageous in her protection of Castlewood during the years of the Revolution, even as she maintains a staunch allegiance to the wrong side.

The novel I read is just one volume in a series of out-of-print novels by William Makepeace Thackeray.It may be difficult to find, but I recommend it highly to fans of the British Victorian novel genre.Written in the style of Englishtypical of 18th and 19th century novels, the text is sometime difficult to follow, but I would suggest that the reader stay with it for its pleasures as fiction and for its educational value as an early history of America.

Final review: a mamooth entreprise...that paid off
In a late Eighteenth Century setting, between fashionable London and backward Virginia, two twin brothers from the nobility spend their formative period trying to flee a domineering dowager mother in different ways - the older a saturnine, melancholy character, the younger an easy going type. Both, in their own way, succeed; but both reach old age feeling themselves equally swindled. The usual Thackeray touch of good humoured aristocratic melancholy aimed at bourgeois philisteism. A lot of good episodes also. Only, for XXIst. Century standards, enormouly long-winded and difficult to read from cover to cover. However, perservere, and you will find yourself rewarded as you finish.

As always, lush- a by-review
I've just begun reading "Virginians" and am in the middle of the chapeter where the two Esmond (or Warrington) brothers want to engage the young George Washington in a duel in order to prevent him from marrying their widowed mother, the unsufferable and domineering Rachel Warrington. After the subdued melancholy of a life ruled by unrequitted love in _Henry Esmond_ this one is full of bantering humour and as always Thackeray offers a lush and lusty, almost carnal prose. It's slow-going, of course, but is a book that as all good XIXth. Century novels demands the modern reader to stand fast and not let it go (I'm reading it partly at the gym, during ergometric bycicle spellls, so I must keep reading or face boredom). After you have clung to it, the book offers you all in the way of tasty morsels. ... Read more

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The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century (1857-59) is a historical novel by William Makepeace Thackeray which forms a sequel to his Henry Esmond and is also loosely linked to Pendennis. It tells the story of Henry Esmond's twin grandsons, George and Henry Warrington. Henry's romantic entanglements with an older woman lead up to his taking a commission in the British army and fighting under the command of General Wolfe at the capture of Quebec. On the outbreak of the American War of Independence he takes the revolutionary side. George, who is also a British officer, thereupon resigns his commission rather than take up arms against his brother.