Catherine : a story / William Makepeace Thackeray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Executions and executioners--Fiction.

Executions and executioners.

Women murderers--Fiction.

Women murderers.

Biographical fiction.

Great Britain--History--Anne, 1702-1714--Fiction.

Great Britain.

Hayes, Catherine Hall, 1690-1726--Fiction.

Hayes, Catherine Hall.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Place of Publication:

[Auckland, New Zealand] : The Floating Press, 1839.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Though he originally set out to depict criminals in as harshly accurate a light as possible, without the sentimentalization that he saw and disdained in Dickens' work, Thackeray's fictionalized account of the life of Catherine Hayes, an eighteenth-century woman who was burned at the stake for the murder of her husband, depicts the titular character in a somewhat more appealing and charming manner than the author intended. A must-read for fans of rollicking picaresque tales such as...

Contents:

Title; Contents; Chapter I - Introducing to the Reader the Chief Personages of this Narrative; Chapter II - In Which Are Depicted the Pleasures of a Sentimental Attachment; Chapter III - In Which a Narcotic is Administered, and a Great Deal of Genteel Society Depicted; Chapter IV - In Which Mrs. Catherine Becomes an Honest Woman Again; Chapter V - Contains Mr. Brock's Autobiography, and Other Matters; Chapter VI - Adventures of the Ambassador, Mr. Macshane; Chapter VII - Which Embraces a Period of Seven Years

Chapter VIII - Enumerates the Accomplishments of Master Thomas Billings-Introduces Brock as Doctor Wood-And Announces the ExecutChapter IX - Interview Between Count Galgenstein and Master Thomas Billings, When He Informs the Count of His Parentage; Chapter X - Showing How Galgenstein and Mrs. Cat Recognise Each Other in Marylebone Gardens-And How the Count Drives Her Home in; Chapter XI - Of Some Domestic Quarrels, and the Consequence Thereof; Chapter XII - Treats of Love, and Prepares for Death; Chapter XIII - Being a Preparation for the End; Chapter the Last; Another Last Chapter; Endnotes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 5, 2013).

ISBN:

1-77651-508-0

OCLC:

701704981