Catherine: A Story

Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:Catherine: A StoryISBN13:9781544805641ISBN10:1544805640Author:William Makepeace Thackeray (Author)Description:(This is a RePrint) - Catherine: A Story Was The First Full-Length Work Of Fiction Produced By William Makepeace Thackeray It First Appeared In Serialized Installments In Fraser's Magazine Between May 1839 And February 1840, Credited To Ikey Solomons, Esq Junior Thackeray's Original Intention In Writing It Was To Criticize The Newgate School Of Crime Fiction, Exemplified By Bulwer-Lytton And Harrison Ainsworth, Whose Works Thackeray Felt Glorified Criminals Thackeray Even Included Dickens In This Criticism For His Portrayal Of The Good-Hearted Streetwalker Nancy And The Charming Pickpocket, The Artful Dodger, In Oliver Twist Ainsworth's Jack Sheppard Portrayed A Real Life Prison Breaker And Thief From The Eighteenth Century In Flattering Terms In Contrast, Thackeray Sought Out A Real Life Criminal Whom He Could Portray In As Unflattering Terms As Possible He Settled On Catherine Hayes, Another Eighteenth-Century Criminal, Who Was Burned At The Stake For Murdering Her Husband In 1726 However, As He Told His Mother, Thackeray Developed A Sneaking Kindness For His Heroine, And The Novel That Was Supposed To Present Criminals As Totally Vile, Without Any Redeeming Characteristics, Instead Made Catherine And Her Roguish Companions Seem Rather Appealing Thackeray Felt The Result Was A Failure, And Did Not Republish It In His Lifetime Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date:2017-03-19Weight:0.36 lbsDimensions:0.25'' H x 9.02'' L x 5.98'' WNumber of Pages:104Language:English

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