Fiction · 1841
The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond
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Contents
- Chapter I — Gives an Account of Our Village and the First Glimpse of the Diamond
- Chapter II — Tells How the Diamond Is Brought Up to London, and Produces Wonderful Effects Both in the City and at the West End
- Chapter III — How the Possessor of the Diamond Is Whisked Into a Magnificent Chariot, and Has Yet Further Good Luck
- Chapter IV — How the Happy Diamond-Wearer Dines at Pentonville
- Chapter V — How the Diamond Introduces Him to a Still More Fashionable Place
- Chapter VI — Of the West Diddlesex Association, and of the Effect the Diamond Had There
- Chapter VII — How Samuel Titmarsh Reached the Highest Point of Prosperity
- Chapter VIII — Relates the Happiest Day of Samuel Titmarsh’s Life
- Chapter IX — Brings Back Sam, His Wife, Aunt, and Diamond, to London
- Chapter X — Of Sam’s Private Affairs and of the Firm of Brough and Hoff
- Chapter XI — In Which It Appears That a Man May Possess a Diamond and Yet Be Very Hard Pressed for a Dinner
- Chapter XII — In Which the Hero’s Aunt’s Diamond Makes Acquaintance with the Hero’s Uncle
- Chapter XIII — In Which It Is Shown That a Good Wife Is the Best Diamond a Man Can Wear in His Bosom
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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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