Catherine: a Story
by William Makepeace Thackeray
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About this eBook
- Author
- Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863
- Title
- Catherine: A Story
- Credits
- Produced by Les Bowler, and David Widger
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
- Subject
- Hayes, Catharine Hall, 1690-1726 -- Fiction
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 1969
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1969
- Release Date
- November 1, 1999
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.CATHERINE: A STORY
- 2.by William Makepeace Thackeray — [Catherine, A Story by Ikey Solomons, Esq., Junior.]
- 3.ADVERTISEMENT
- 4.CHAPTER I. INTRODUCING TO THE READER THE CHIEF PERSONAGE OF THIS NARRATIVE.
- 5.CHAPTER II. IN WHICH ARE DEPICTED THE PLEASURES OF A SENTIMENTAL ATTACHMENT.
- 6.CHAPTER III. IN WHICH A NARCOTIC IS ADMINISTERED, AND A GREAT DEAL OF GENTEEL SOCIETY DEPICTED.
- 7.CHAPTER IV. IN WHICH MRS. CATHERINE BECOMES AN HONEST WOMAN AGAIN.
- 8.CHAPTER V. CONTAINS MR. BROCK'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY, AND OTHER MATTERS.
- 9.CHAPTER VI. ADVENTURES OF THE AMBASSADOR, MR. MACSHANE.
- 10.CHAPTER VII. WHICH EMBRACES A PERIOD OF SEVEN YEARS.
- 11.CHAPTER VIII. ENUMERATES THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF MASTER THOMAS BILLINGS—INTRODUCES BROCK AS DOCTOR WOOD—AND ANNOUNCES THE EXECUTION OF ENSIGN MACSHANE.
- 12.CHAPTER IX. INTERVIEW BETWEEN COUNT GALGENSTEIN AND MASTER THOMAS BILLINGS, WHEN HE INFORMS THE COUNT OF HIS PARENTAGE.
- 13.CHAPTER X. SHOWING HOW GALGENSTEIN AND MRS. CAT RECOGNISE EACH OTHER IN MARYLEBONE GARDENS—AND HOW THE COUNT DRIVES HER HOME IN HIS CARRIAGE.
- 14.CHAPTER XI. OF SOME DOMESTIC QUARRELS, AND THE CONSEQUENCE THEREOF.
- 15.CHAPTER XII. TREATS OF LOVE, AND PREPARES FOR DEATH.
- 16.CHAPTER XIII. BEING A PREPARATION FOR THE END.
- 17.CHAPTER THE LAST.
- 18.ANOTHER LAST CHAPTER.
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