The History of Pendennis
by William Makepeace Thackeray
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Chapters (80)
- THE HISTORY OF PENDENNIS
- His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy
- PREFACE
- PENDENNIS
- CHAPTER I. Shows how First Love may interrupt Breakfast
- CHAPTER II. A Pedigree and other Family Matters
- CHAPTER III. In which Pendennis appears as a very young Man indeed
- CHAPTER IV. Mrs. Haller
- CHAPTER V. Mrs. Haller at Home
- CHAPTER VI. Contains both Love and War
- CHAPTER VII. In which the Major makes his Appearance
- CHAPTER VIII. In which Pen is kept waiting at the Door, while the Reader is informed who little Laura was.
- CHAPTER IX. In which the Major opens the Campaign
- CHAPTER X. Facing the Enemy
- CHAPTER XI. Negotiation
- CHAPTER XII. In which a Shooting Match is proposed
- CHAPTER XIII. A Crisis
- CHAPTER XIV. In which Miss Fotheringay makes a new Engagement
- CHAPTER XV. The happy Village
- CHAPTER XVI. More Storms in the Puddle
- CHAPTER XVII. Which concludes the first Part of this History
- CHAPTER XVIII. Alma Mater
- CHAPTER XIX. Pendennis of Boniface
- CHAPTER XX. Rake’s Progress
- CHAPTER XXI. Flight after Defeat
- CHAPTER XXII. Prodigal’s Return
- CHAPTER XXIII. New Faces
- CHAPTER XXIV. A Little Innocent
- CHAPTER XXV. Contains both Love and Jealousy
- CHAPTER XXVI. A House full of Visitors
- CHAPTER XXVII. Contains some Ball-practising
- CHAPTER XXVIII. Which is both Quarrelsome and Sentimental
- CHAPTER XXIX. Babylon
- CHAPTER XXX. The Knights of the Temple
- CHAPTER XXXI. Old and new Acquaintances
- CHAPTER XXXII. In which the Printer’s Devil comes to the Door
- CHAPTER XXXIII. Which is passed in the Neighbourhood of Ludgate Hill
- CHAPTER XXXIV. In which the History still hovers about Fleet Street
- CHAPTER XXXV. Dinner in the Row
- CHAPTER XXXVI. The Pall Mall Gazette
- CHAPTER XXXVII. Where Pen appears in Town and Country
- CHAPTER XXXVIII. In which the Sylph reappears
- CHAPTER XXXIX. In which Colonel Altamont appears and disappears
- CHAPTER XL. Relates to Mr. Harry Foker’s Affairs
- CHAPTER XLI. Carries the Reader both to Richmond and Greenwich
- CHAPTER XLII. Contains a novel Incident
- CHAPTER XLIII. Alsatia
- CHAPTER XLIV. In which the Colonel narrates some of his Adventures
- CHAPTER XLV. A Chapter of Conversations
- CHAPTER XLVI. Miss Amory’s Partners
- CHAPTER XLVII. Monseigneur s’amuse
- CHAPTER XLVIII. A Visit of Politeness
- CHAPTER XLIX. In Shepherd’s Inn
- CHAPTER L. In or near the Temple Garden
- CHAPTER LI. The happy Village again
- CHAPTER LII. Which had very nearly been the last of the Story
- CHAPTER LIII. A critical Chapter
- CHAPTER LIV. Convalescence
- CHAPTER LV. Fanny’s Occupation’s gone
- CHAPTER LVI. In which Fanny engages a new Medical Man
- CHAPTER LVII. Foreign Ground
- CHAPTER LVIII. “Fairoaks to let”
- CHAPTER LIX. Old Friends
- CHAPTER LX. Explanations
- CHAPTER LXI. Conversations
- CHAPTER LXII. The Way of the World
- CHAPTER LXIII. Which accounts perhaps for Chapter LXI.
- CHAPTER LXIV. Phyllis and Corydon
- CHAPTER LXV. Temptation
- CHAPTER LXVI. In which Pen begins his Canvass
- CHAPTER LXVII. In which Pen begins to doubt about his Election
- CHAPTER LXVIII. In which the Major is bidden to Stand and Deliver
- CHAPTER LXIX. In which the Major neither yields his Money nor his Life
- CHAPTER LXX. In which Pendennis counts his Eggs
- CHAPTER LXXI. Fiat Justitia
- CHAPTER LXXII. In which the Decks begin to clear
- CHAPTER LXXIII. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Huxter
- CHAPTER LXXIV. Shows how Arthur had better have taken a Return-ticket
- CHAPTER LXXV. A Chapter of Match-making
- CHAPTER LXXVI. Exeunt Omnes
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