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William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) was a multitalented writer and illustrator born in British India. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, where some of his earliest writings appeared in university periodicals. As a young adult he encountered various financial issues including the failure of two newspapers. It wasn’t until his marriage in 1836 that he found direction in both his life and career. Thackeray regularly contributed to Fraser's Magazine, where he debuted a serialized version of one of his most popular novels, The Luck of Barry Lyndon. He spent his decades-long career writing novels, satirical sketches and art criticism.
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The Kickleburys on the Rhine by William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated) - William Makepeace Thackeray
The Complete Works of
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
VOLUME 33 OF 70
The Kickleburys on the Rhine
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‘The Kickleburys on the Rhine’
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William Makepeace Thackeray: Parts Edition
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WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
IN 70 VOLUMES
Parts Edition Contents
The Novels
1, Catherine
2, A Shabby Genteel Story
3, The Luck of Barry Lyndon
4, Vanity Fair
5, The History of Pendennis
6, Men’s Wives
7, The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.
8, The Newcomes
9, The Virginians
10, Lovel the Widower
11, The Adventures of Philip
12, Denis Duval
The Shorter Fiction
13, Elizabeth Brownrigge
14, Sultan Stork
15, Little Spitz
16, The Professor
17, Miss Löwe
18, The Yellowplush Papers
19, The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan
20, The Fatal Boots
21, Cox’s Diary
22, The Bedford-Row Conspiracy
23, The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond
24, The Fitz-Boodle Papers
25, The Diary of C. Jeames de La Pluche, Esq. with His Letters
26, A Legend of the Rhine
27, A Little Dinner at Timmins’s
28, Rebecca and Rowena
29, Bluebeard’s Ghost
The Christmas Books
30, Mrs. Perkins’s Ball
31, Our Street
32, Doctor Birch and His Young Friends
33, The Kickleburys on the Rhine
34, The Rose and the Ring
The Sketches and Satires
35, Contributions to The Snob
36, Flore Et Zephyr
37, The Irish Sketch Book
38, The Book of Snobs
39, Roundabout Papers
40, Some Roundabout Papers
41, Dickens in France
42, Character Sketches
43, Sketches and Travels in London
44, Mr. Brown’s Letters
45, The Proser
46, Miscellanies
The Play
47, The Wolves and the Lamb
The Poetry
48, The Poetry of William Makepeace Thackeray
The Travel Writing
49, Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo
50, The Paris Sketch Book
51, Little Travels and Roadside Sketches
The Non-Fiction
52, Novels by Eminent Hands
53, The History of the Next French Revolution
54, The Second Funeral of Napoleon
55, George Cruikshank
56, John Leech’s Pictures of Life and Character
57, The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century
58, The Four Georges
59, Critical Reviews
60, A Lecture on Charity and Humour
61, Various Essays, Letters, Sketches, Etc.
62, The History of Dionysius Diddler.
63, Contributions to Punch
64, Miss Tickletoby’s Lectures on English History
65, Papers by the Fat Contributor
66, Miscellaneous Contributions to Punch
67, Spec
and Proser
Papers
68, A Plan for a Prize Novel
The Letters
69, A Collection of Letters 1847-1855
The Biography
70, Thackeray by Anthony Trollope
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The Kickleburys on the Rhine
BY MR. M. A. TITMARSH
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION:
BEING AN ESSAY ON THUNDER AND SMALL BEER.
Any reader who may have a fancy to purchase a copy of this present edition of the History of the Kickleburys Abroad,
had best be warned in time, that the Times newspaper does not approve of the work, and has but a bad opinion both of the author and his readers. Nothing can be fairer than this statement: if you happen to take up the poor little volume at a railroad station, and read this sentence, lay the book down, and buy something else. You are warned. What more can the author say? If after this you WILL buy, — amen! pay your money, take your book, and fall to. Between ourselves, honest reader, it is no very strong potation which the present purveyor offers to you. It will not trouble your head much in the drinking. It was intended for that sort of negus which is offered at Christmas parties and of which ladies and children may partake with refreshment and cheerfulness. Last year I tried a brew which was old, bitter, and strong; and scarce any one would drink it. This year we send round a milder tap, and it is liked by customers: though the critics (who like strong ale, the rogues!) turn up their noses. In heaven’s name, Mr. Smith, serve round the liquor to the gentle-folks. Pray, dear madam, another glass; it is Christmas time, it will do you no harm. It is not intended to keep long, this sort of drink. (Come, froth up, Mr. Publisher, and pass quickly round!) And as for the professional gentlemen, we must get a stronger sort for THEM some day.
The Times’ gentleman (a very difficult gent to please) is the loudest and noisiest of all, and has made more hideous faces over the refreshment offered to him than any other critic. There is no use shirking this statement! when a man has been abused in the Times, he can’t hide it, any more than he could hide the knowledge of his having been committed to prison by Mr. Henry, or publicly caned in Pall Mall. You see it in your friends’ eyes when they meet you. They know it. They have chuckled over it to a man. They whisper about it at the club, and look over the paper at you. My next-door neighbor came to see me this morning, and I saw by his face that he had the whole story pat. Hem!
says he, well, I HAVE heard of it; and the fact is, they were talking about you at dinner last night, and mentioning that the Times had — ahem!— ‘walked into you.’
My good M — —
I say — and M —— will corroborate, if need be, the statement I make here— "here is the Times’ article, dated January 4th, which states so and so, and here is a letter from the publisher, likewise dated January 4th, and which says: —
MY DEAR Sir, — Having this day sold the last copy of the first edition (of x thousand) of the ‘Kickleburys Abroad,’ and having orders for more, had we not better proceed to a second edition? and will you permit me to enclose an order on,
&c. &c.?
Singular coincidence! And if every author who was so abused by a critic had a similar note from a publisher,