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A Shabby Genteel Story and Other Writings (Everyman's Library (Paper))
A Shabby Genteel Story and Other Writings - Everyman's Library Paper Author:William Makepeace Thackeray Thackeray's satirical stories of domestic folly and social climbing mocked, with good humor, his pretentious generation. Whether he joined a crowd of forty thousand spectators at the gallows, or dined with fat burghers at the Lord Mayor's feast, his amusement produced some of the wittiest-and most savage-lampoons in English.