William Makepeace Thackeray - Catherine: A Story
William Makepeace Thackeray - Catherine: A Story
Publisher: S. F. Goldfarb | 1840 | English | ISBN: ISBN 0472110411 | PDF | 193 pages | 1,2 MB
Publisher: S. F. Goldfarb | 1840 | English | ISBN: ISBN 0472110411 | PDF | 193 pages | 1,2 MB
An original English text of Catherine: A Story by Ikey Solomons, Esq., Junior (the full title) by William Makepeace Thackeray, a prominent English novelist of the XIX-th century, who became famous for his satirical works.
In Catherine… Thackeray began by parodying the popular criminal novel, but he soon became interested in his characters for their own sakes. 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 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.