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The History of Pendennis

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By William Makepeace Thackeray
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The narrative follows a young man's development from youth into social maturity as he navigates friendship, first love, family obligations, temptation, financial ups and downs, and professional and domestic life. Episodic chapters alternate country scenes and London society, with club life, legal and journalistic circles, and military acquaintances providing settings for satire of manners and moral self-examination. Secondary figures provoke crises, reconciliations, and comic misunderstandings that test the central figure's character, while the narrator interjects wry commentary, blending sentimental episodes with social critique until the protagonist attains a tempered sense of duty and affection.

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Title: The History of Pendennis

Author: William Makepeace Thackeray

Release date: January 1, 2005 [eBook #7265]
Most recently updated: September 24, 2021

Language: English

Credits: Tapio Riikonen and David Widger

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THE HISTORY OF PENDENNIS

His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy

By William Makepeace Thackeray

Contents

PREFACE
CHAPTER I. Shows how First Love may interrupt Breakfast
CHAPTER II. A Pedigree and other Family Matters
CHAPTER III. In which Pendennis appears as a very young Man indeed
CHAPTER IV. Mrs. Haller
CHAPTER V. Mrs. Haller at Home
CHAPTER VI. Contains both Love and War
CHAPTER VII. In which the Major makes his Appearance
CHAPTER VIII. In which Pen is kept waiting at the Door, while the Reader is informed who little Laura was.
CHAPTER IX. In which the Major opens the Campaign
CHAPTER X. Facing the Enemy
CHAPTER XI. Negotiation
CHAPTER XII. In which a Shooting Match is proposed
CHAPTER XIII. A Crisis
CHAPTER XIV. In which Miss Fotheringay makes a new Engagement
CHAPTER XV. The happy Village
CHAPTER XVI. More Storms in the Puddle
CHAPTER XVII. Which concludes the first Part of this History
CHAPTER XVIII. Alma Mater
CHAPTER XIX. Pendennis of Boniface
CHAPTER XX. Rake’s Progress
CHAPTER XXI. Flight after Defeat
CHAPTER XXII. Prodigal’s Return
CHAPTER XXIII. New Faces
CHAPTER XXIV. A Little Innocent
CHAPTER XXV. Contains both Love and Jealousy
CHAPTER XXVI. A House full of Visitors
CHAPTER XXVII. Contains some Ball-practising
CHAPTER XXVIII. Which is both Quarrelsome and Sentimental
CHAPTER XXIX. Babylon
CHAPTER XXX. The Knights of the Temple
CHAPTER XXXI. Old and new Acquaintances
CHAPTER XXXII. In which the Printer’s Devil comes to the Door
CHAPTER XXXIII. Which is passed in the Neighbourhood of Ludgate Hill
CHAPTER XXXIV. In which the History still hovers about Fleet Street
CHAPTER XXXV. Dinner in the Row
CHAPTER XXXVI. The Pall Mall Gazette
CHAPTER XXXVII. Where Pen appears in Town and Country
CHAPTER XXXVIII. In which the Sylph reappears
CHAPTER XXXIX. In which Colonel Altamont appears and disappears
CHAPTER XL. Relates to Mr. Harry Foker’s Affairs
CHAPTER XLI. Carries the Reader both to Richmond and Greenwich
CHAPTER XLII. Contains a novel Incident
CHAPTER XLIII. Alsatia
CHAPTER XLIV. In which the Colonel narrates some of his Adventures
CHAPTER XLV. A Chapter of Conversations
CHAPTER XLVI. Miss Amory’s Partners
CHAPTER XLVII. Monseigneur s’amuse
CHAPTER XLVIII. A Visit of Politeness
CHAPTER XLIX. In Shepherd’s Inn
CHAPTER L. In or near the Temple Garden
CHAPTER LI. The happy Village again
CHAPTER LII. Which had very nearly been the last of the Story
CHAPTER LIII. A critical Chapter
CHAPTER LIV. Convalescence
CHAPTER LV. Fanny’s Occupation’s gone
CHAPTER LVI. In which Fanny engages a new Medical Man
CHAPTER LVII. Foreign Ground
CHAPTER LVIII. “Fairoaks to let”
CHAPTER LIX. Old Friends
CHAPTER LX. Explanations
CHAPTER LXI. Conversations
CHAPTER LXII. The Way of the World
CHAPTER LXIII. Which accounts perhaps for Chapter LXI.
CHAPTER LXIV. Phyllis and Corydon
CHAPTER LXV. Temptation
CHAPTER LXVI. In which Pen begins his Canvass
CHAPTER LXVII. In which Pen begins to doubt about his Election
CHAPTER LXVIII. In which the Major is bidden to Stand and Deliver
CHAPTER LXIX. In which the Major neither yields his Money nor his Life
CHAPTER LXX. In which Pendennis counts his Eggs
CHAPTER LXXI. Fiat Justitia
CHAPTER LXXII. In which the Decks begin to clear
CHAPTER LXXIII. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Huxter
CHAPTER LXXIV. Shows how Arthur had better have taken a Return-ticket
CHAPTER LXXV. A Chapter of Match-making
CHAPTER LXXVI. Exeunt Omnes