Miscellaneous Prose

By Meredith, George

Book Id: WPLBN0000661604
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Miscellaneous Prose
Author:	Meredith, George
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Literature, Literature & drama
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Penn State University's Electronic Classics Series Collection
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Publisher:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics


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Excerpt
Excerpt: William Makepeace Thackeray was born at Calcutta, July 18, 1811, the only child of Richmond and Anne Thackeray. He received the main part of his education at the Charterhouse, as we know to our profit. Thence he passed to Cambridge, remaining there from February 1829 to sometime in 1830. To judge by quotations and allusions, his favourite of the classics was Horace, the chosen of the eighteenth century, and generally the voice of its philosophy in a prosperous country. His voyage from India gave him sight of Napoleon on the rocky island. In his young manhood he made his bow reverentially to Goethe of Weimar; which did not check his hand from setting its mark on the sickliness of Werther.

Table of Contents
Contents MISCELLANEOUS PROSE............................................................................................................ 4 INTRODUCTION TO W. M. THACKERAY?S ?THE FOUR GEORGES?............................... 4 A PAUSE IN THE STRIFE?1886 .................................................................................................. 6 LESLIE STEPHEN?1904 ............................................................................................................. 13 CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE SEAT OF WAR IN ITALY ............................................... 14