WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

pubOne.info present you this new edition. DEAR SIR, - I have always been considered the third-best whist-player in Europe, and (though never betting more than five pounds) have for many years past added considerably to my yearly income by my skill in the game, until the commencement of the present season, when a French gentleman, Monsieur...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. Mr. and Mrs. Fitzroy Timmins live in Lilliput Street, that neat little street which runs at right angles with the Park and Brobdingnag Gardens. It is a very genteel neighborhood, and I need not say they are of a good family....

The estate of Castlewood, in Virginia, which was given to our ancestors by King Charles the First, as some return for the sacrifices made in his Majesty's cause by the Esmond family, lies in Westmoreland county, between the rivers Potomac and Rappahannoc, and was once as great as an English Principality, though in the early times its revenues...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. In a certain quiet and sequestered nook of the retired village of London- perhaps in the neighbourhood of Berkeley Square, or at any rate somewhere near Burlington Gardens- there was once a house of entertainment called the "e;Bootjack Hotel. "e; Mr. Crump, the landlord, had, in the outset of life,...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. OF THE LOVES OF MR. PERKINS AND MISS GORGON, AND OF THE TWO GREAT FACTIONS IN THE TOWN OF OLDBOROUGH....

pubOne.info present you this new edition. I think it but right that in making my appearance before the public I should at once acquaint them with my titles and name. My card, as I leave it at the houses of the nobility, my friends, is as follows:...