Nonfiction · 1846
Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo
Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo, first published in 1846, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- Dedication
- Preface
- Chapter I — Vigo
- Chapter II — Lisbon—Cadiz
- Chapter III — The “Lady Mary Wood”
- Chapter IV — Gibraltar
- Chapter V — Athens
- Chapter VI — Smyrna—First Glimpses of the East
- Chapter VII — Constantinople
- Chapter VIII — Rhodes
- Chapter IX — The White Squall
- Chapter X — Telmessus—Beyrout
- Chapter XI — A Day and Night in Syria
- Chapter XII — From Jaffa to Jerusalem
- Chapter XIII — Jerusalem
- Chapter XIV — From Jaffa to Alexandria
- Chapter XV — To Cairo
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1811–1863 · Victorian
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) was born in Calcutta and sent to England at six; he gambled away much of an inheritance at Cambridge, then tried painting in Paris before turning to journalism, writing under various pseudonyms for Fraser's Magazine and Punch. Vanity Fair (1847–48), serialized without his name attached at first, made his reputation as Dickens's great rival; Pendennis, Henry Esmond and The Newcomes followed, but he never matched its scale again. He died suddenly in London at fifty-two.
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