William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) was a British novelist famous for his satirical novels, including “Vanity Fair.”
Short Stories written by William Makepeace Thackeray
- A Little Dinner at Timmins’s 1832 - I. Mr. and Mrs. Fitzroy Timmins live in Lilliput Street, that neat little street which runs at right angles with… ... Read more
- Doctor Birch And His Young Friends 1832 - THE DOCTOR AND HIS STAFF. There is no need to say why I became assistant-master and professor of the English… ... Read more
- George Cruikshank 1832 - Accusations of ingratitude, and just accusations no doubt, are made against every inhabitant of this wicked world, and the fact… ... Read more
- Henry Esmond’s Boyhood 1832 - Harry Esmond had lived to be past fourteen years old; had never possessed but two friends, and had a fond… ... Read more
- John Leech’s Pictures of Life and Character 1832 - We, who can recall the consulship of Plancus, and quite respectable, old-fogyfied times, remember amongst other amusements which we had… ... Read more
- Little Travels and Roadside Sketches 1832 - I.--FROM RICHMOND IN SURREY TO BRUSSELS IN BELGIUM . . . I quitted the "Rose Cottage Hotel" at Richmond, one… ... Read more
- Mrs. Perkins’s Ball 1832 - THE MULLIGAN (OF BALLYMULLIGAN), AND HOW WE WENT TO MRS. PERKINS'S BALL. I do not know where Ballymulligan is, and… ... Read more
- On Being Found Out 1832 - At the close (let us say) of Queen Anne's reign, when I was a boy at a private and preparatory… ... Read more
- Our Street 1832 - Our street, from the little nook which I occupy in it, and whence I and a fellow-lodger and friend of… ... Read more
- The Bedford-Row Conspiracy 1832 - OF THE LOVES OF MR. PERKINS AND MISS GORGON, AND OF THE TWO GREAT FACTIONS IN THE TOWN OF OLDBOROUGH.… ... Read more
- The Fatal Boots 1832 - JANUARY.--THE BIRTH OF THE YEAR. Some poet has observed, that if any man would write down what has really happened… ... Read more
- The Kickleburys On The Rhine 1832 - BY MR. M. A. TITMARSH PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION: BEING AN ESSAY ON THUNDER AND SMALL BEER. Any reader… ... Read more
- The Notch on the Ax 1832 - I Every one remembers in the Fourth Book of the immortal poem of your Blind Bard (to whose sightless orbs… ... Read more
- The Second Funeral of Napoleon 1832 - I.--ON THE DISINTERMENT OF NAPOLEON AT ST. HELENA. MY DEAR ----,--It is no en the Voyage from St. Helena asy… ... Read more