Books with author Thackeray

This volume is from 1902. Between 1866 and 1874 Anne Thackeray Ritchie (1837-1919) published nine revisions of well-known fairy tales. The first four stories ("Sleeping Beauty in the Woods," "Cinderella," "Beauty and the Beast," and "Little Red Riding Hood") and the novella lack the Giant-Killer appeared over a two-year period in The Cornhill Magazine and were collected in Five Old Friends and a Young Prince (1868). Four more such revisions (Bluebeard's Keys, Riquet a la Houppe, Jack and the Bean-Stalk, and The White Cat) were subsequently serialized and collected in Bluebeard's Keys and Other Stories (1874). Contents: Bluebeard's Keys Part I I. Fanny's Work-Basket II. The Terrace Opposite the Church III. Under the Dais IV. A Carriage; a Marquis V. A Trousseau VI. The Secret VII. Bluebeards's Keys Part II VIII. Mrs. Detravers' Dreams IX. Mrs. DeTravers Awake X. A Roman Party XI. Fanny and Barbi XII. The Capuchins' Mass Riquet a la Houppe 1. True Love II. Dorlicote III. Colonel King's Two Daughters IV. Dinner V. Tea Time VI. Some Passages from Sophy's Correspondence VII. More Correspondence VIII. In the Balcony IX. Throught the Village X. Sylle Alone in the Forest XI. An Umbrealla XII. Miss Williamson Tries Her Hand at Description XIII. Old Christine's Oracle Jack and the Bean-Stalk I. Jack's Father II. Jack's Mother III. The Cow IV. The Ogre's Harp V. Jack Meets a Fairy Godmother VI. Beans and Talk VII. Widow Barnes' Hen is Scared VIII. In the Ogre's Castle IX. The Bean-stalk Top Which Jack Tried to Climb X. The Arid Country Towards Which Jack is Climbing XI. Jack Comes to the Ogre's Mansion XII. Jack Carries off the Hen with the Golden Eggs XIII. Jack Hears the Strain of the Harp Music XIV. The Bean-Stalk XV. Jack Starts on his Second Jorney to the Ogre's Castle XVI. Jack Secures the Money Bags XVII. Jack Steals the Golden Harp XVIII. Jack Brings Home the Golden Harp and Cuts the Bean-Stalk The White Cat I. A Friend II. Fairy Latouche Enchants the Castle and the Poor Little White Cat III. The Old King and His Three Sons IV. The Youngest Starts on His Travels in Search of a Dog, Fine Linen and a Fair Bride V. The Grand Entertainment to Which the Prince Accompanies the White Cat VI. The Prince Stays on at the White Cat's Castle VII. The Prince Prepares to Take Leave VIII. The Prince Carries off the French Poodle IX. The Prince at His Father's Court X. The Prince Cuts off the White Cat's Head and Throws it into the Fire

Vanity Fair is an English novel by William Makepeace Thackeray which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Emmy Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. It was first published as a 19-volume monthly serial from 1847 to 1848, carrying the subtitle Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Life, reflecting both its satirisation of early 19th-century British society and the many illustrations drawn by Thackeray to accompany the text. It was published as a single volume in 1848 with the subtitle A Novel without a Hero, reflecting Thackeray's interest in deconstructing his era's conventions regarding literary heroism. It is sometimes considered the "principal founder" of the Victorian domestic novel.The story is framed as a puppet play and the narrator, despite being an authorial voice, is notoriously unreliable. Late in the narrative, it is revealed that the entire account has been 2nd- or 3rd-hand gossip the writer picked up "years ago" from Lord Tapeworm, British charge d'affaires in one of the minor German states and relative of several of the other aristocrats in the story but none of the main characters: "the famous little Becky puppet", "the Amelia Doll", "the Dobbin Figure", "the Little Boys", and "the Wicked Nobleman, on which no expense has been spared".[3] Despite her many stated faults and still worse ones admitted to have been passed over in silence, Becky emerges as the "hero"—what is now called an antihero—in place of Amelia because Thackeray is able to illustrate that "the highest virtue a fictional character can possess is interest."

After Garryn returns to claim the throne of his homeworld, he's plagued by dreams of a mysterious star system with a yellow sun.Consulting a mentalist for help, Garryn learns that he is not the only one with the same dreams, and sets on a quest to understand his visions.Soon, the truth behind the dreams reveals a secret that changes Garryn's life, and shakes the Empire to its foundations.Praise:★★★★★ - "I literally could not put this book down until I finished it. If you like space operas, you'll love this book."★★★★★ - "My favorite thing about this book is the world building. The story takes place in a futuristic society, yet it's more like opulent Victorian England."★★★★★ - "I thoroughly enjoyed this. Fast paced, easy to fall into. I'll look for more books by Linda Thackeray."

The Rose and The Ring is a satirical work of fiction that criticises, to some extent, the attitudes of the monarchy and those at the top of society and challenges their ideals of beauty and marriage. Set in the fictional countries of Paflagonia and Crim Tartary, the story revolves around the lives and fortunes of four young royal cousins, Princesses Angelica and Rosalba, and Princes Bulbo and Giglio.

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