WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

pubOne.info present you this new edition. Accusations of ingratitude, and just accusations no doubt, are made against every inhabitant of this wicked world, and the fact is, that a man who is ceaselessly engaged in its trouble and turmoil, borne hither and thither upon the fierce waves of the crowd, bustling, shifting, struggling to keep himself...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF By William Makepeace Thackeray Boston, Estes and Lauriat, Publisher...

I do not say there is no character as well drawn in Shakespeare [as D'Artagnan]. I do say there is none that I love so wholly.--Robert Louis StevensonThe lasting and universal popularity of The Three Musketeers shows that Dumas, by artlessly expressing his own nature in the persons of his heroes, was responding to that craving for action, strength...

Historia Lulejki i Bulby z rysunkami autoraPiękna królewna Angelika od lat jest zaręczona z księciem Lulejko. O jej rękę stara się jednak także Bulbo, następca tronu sąsiedniego państwa. Posiada on zaczarowaną różę, która czyni właściciela pięknym i lubianym przez wszystkich ; podobne właściwości ma pierścień, noszony przez Angelikę. Co się stanie,...

(A Modern Library E-Book)A marvelous, incisive social satire that gleefully exposes the greed and corruption raging in England during the turmoil of the Napoleonic wars through its tracing of the changing fortunes of two unforgettable women. It is a comic masterpiece that still resonates today.Re-reading Vanity Fair, one realises what a brilliant...

...