Fiction · 1855
The Rose and the Ring
The Rose and the Ring, first published in 1855, 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
- Prelude
- I — Shows How the Royal Family Sate Down to Breakfast
- II — How King Valoroso Got the Crown, and Prince Giglio Went Without
- III — Tells Who the Fairy Blackstick Was, and Who Were Ever So Many Grand Personages Besides
- IV — How Blackstick Was Not Asked to the Princess Angelica’s Christening
- V — How Princess Angelica Took a Little Maid
- VI — How Prince Giglio Behaved Himself
- VII — How Giglio and Angelica Had a Quarrel
- VIII — How Gruffanuff Picked the Fairy Ring Up, and Prince Bulbo Came to Court
- IX — How Betsinda Got the Warming Pan
- X — How King Valoroso Was in a Dreadful Passion
- XI — What Gruffanuff Did to Giglio and Betsinda
- XII — How Betsinda Fled, and What Became of Her
- XIII — How Queen Rosalba Came to the Castle of the Bold Count Hogginarmo
- XIV — What Became of Giglio
- XV — We Return to Rosalba
- XVI — How Hedzoff Rode Back Again to King Giglio
- XVII — How a Tremendous Battle Took Place, and Who Won It
- XVIII — How They All Journeyed Back to the Capital
- XIX — And Now We Come to the Last Scene in the Pantomime
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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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