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Title: Thackerayana;
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Grego, Joseph, 1843-1908, comp Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863, illus
Subjects: Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 Novelists, English
Publisher: London, Chatto and Windus
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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chare not to be daily exerted ; long intervals are required torecruit after such labours ; but the bright, ready croquis ofthe instant, if not profound, embalms the life that is passingand incessant; the incident too fleeting to be preserved onthe canvas, or in a more ambitious walk of the art, lives inthe little sketch-book ; it is grateful to the hand which jotsit down, and has the agreeable result of being able toextend that pleasure to all who may glance therein. If itwas one of Thackerays few fanciful griefs that he was notdestined for a painter of the grand order, it doubtless con-soled him to find that the happier gift of embodying thatabstract creation—an idea—in a few strokes of a pencil t I INTRODUCTION. was his beyond all question ; and this graceful faculty hewas accustomed to exercise so industriously, that myriadexamples survive of the originality of his invention as anartist, in addition to the brilliant fancy and sterling truthto be found in his works as an author.
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CONTENTS, CHAPTER I. PAGE Voyage from India — Touching at St. Helena—Schooldays at theCharterhouse — Early Reminiscences — Sketches in School Books —Boyish Scribblings—Favourite Fictions—Youthful Caricatures—Sou-venirs of the Play—Holidays—Visits to Parents . . ... I CHAPTER II. Early Favourites—The Castle of Otranto—Rollins Ancient History . 20 CHAPTER III. Thackerays last visit to the Charterhouse—College days—Pendennis atCambridge—Sketches of University worthies—Sporting subjects—Penspopularity—Etchings at Cambridge—Pencillings in old authors—Pic-torial Puns—The Snob, a Literary and Scientific Journal—Tim-buctoo, apprize poem 49 CHAPTER IV. Early Favourites—Fieldings Joseph Andrews—Imitations of Fieldingsnovels—The Adventures of Captain Greenland—Jack Connor—* Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea .74 CHAPTER V. Continental Ramblings—A Stolen Trip to Paris—Calais and the ParisRoad in 1830—French Jottings—Thackerays Resi

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