The History of Pendennis

by William Makepeace Thackeray

Book Overview

Written immediately after Vanity Fair, Pendennis has a similar atmosphere of brooding disillusion, tempered by the most jovial of wits. But here Thackeray plunders his own past to create the character... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1544805039
• ISBN13: 9781544805030
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 470 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Fun and quite readable

Most people know of only one book by Thackeray: his witty and savage masterpiece VANITY FAIR. PENDENNIS, perhaps his second-best book, is certainly no slouch itself: a funny, rollicking Bildungsroman, PENDENNIS chronicles the adventures of a loveable young man who almost always manages to get himself into trouble, and his tribulations with the several attractive women in his life (including his young mother). There are some definite slow patches to the work, but for the most part it moves almnost at a rip-roaring pace, and it has none of the overseriousness that mars Thackeray's later works (such as the fascinating, but slowpaced THE NEWCOMES). This is Victorian reading at its most pleasurable, if not its most intellectually challenging.

Everyone should read this book!

This is without a doubt one of the funniest and enjoyable novels I have ever read! Do not let the length of the book scare you, Thackeray's brilliant and unique style makes it an easy joy to read. I admit there are some lulls but overall PENDENNIS will earn an honored place on any bookshelf.