An Evening With William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: August 31, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781417942831
Subjects: Literature: History & Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: While the present century was in its teens, and on one sunshiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate of Miss Pinkerton's academy for young ladies, on Chiswick Mall, a large family coach, with two fat horses in blazing harness, driven by a fat coachman in a three-cornered hat and wig, at the rate of four miles an hour.