Red Wagon

27 works of William Makepeace Thackeray
English novelist of the 19th century (1811-1863)

This ebook presents a collection of 27 works of William Makepeace Thackeray. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected.

Table of Contents:
- A Little Dinner at Timmin's
- Ballads
- Barry Lyndon
- Burlesques
- Catherine - a Story
- George Cruikshank
- Henry Esmond - The English Humourists - The Four Georges
- John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character
- Men's Wives
- Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo
- Roundabout Papers
- The Bedford-Row Conspiracy
- The Book of Snobs
- The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh
- The Fatal Boots
- The Fitz-Boodle Papers
- The History of Pendennis
- The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond
- The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush
- The Newcomes - Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
- The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh
- The Rose and the Ring
- The Second Funeral of Napoleon
- The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan
- The Virginians
- The Wolves and the Lamb
- Vanity Fair

Even the unflappable Miss Marple is astounded as she reads the letter addressed to her on instructions from the recently deceased tycoon Mr. Jason Rafiel, whom she had met on holiday in the West Indies (A Caribbean Mystery). Recognizing in her a natural flair for justice and a genius for crime-solving, Mr. Rafiel has bequeathed to Miss Marple a £20,000 legacy -- and a legacy of an entirely different sort. For he has asked Miss Marple to investigate...his own murder. The only problem is, Mr. Rafiel has failed to name a suspect or suspects. And, whoever they are, they will certainly be determined to thwart Miss Marple's inquiries -- no matter what it will take to stop her.

The publisher's special commentary chapter and the author's biography are included in this version.

The Enchanted April book is here for grab. The novel was written by Elizabeth von Arnim to tell the story of four ladies who were so different. They left England where it was rainy and damp to visit a private castle in Italy. The book was later adapted into the Enchanted April play and film with the same title as the novel.

Henry James, OM (15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916) was an American-born writer, regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.
James alternated between America and Europe for the first 20 years of his life, after which he settled in England, becoming a British subject in 1915, one year before his death. He is primarily known for the series of novels in which he portrays the encounter of Americans with Europe and Europeans. His method of writing from the point of view of a character within a tale allows him to explore issues related to consciousness and perception, and his style in later works has been compared to impressionist painting.
James contributed significantly to literary criticism, particularly in his insistence that writers be allowed the greatest possible freedom in presenting their view of the world. James claimed that a text must first and foremost be realistic and contain a representation of life that is recognisable to its readers. Good novels, to James, show life in action and are, most importantly, interesting. The concept of a good or bad novel is judged solely upon whether the author is good or bad. His imaginative use of point of view, interior monologue and possibly unreliable narrators in his own novels and tales brought a new depth and interest to narrative fiction. An extraordinarily productive writer, in addition to his voluminous works of fiction he published articles and books of travel, biography, autobiography, and criticism, and wrote plays, some of which were performed during his lifetime with moderate success. His theatrical work is thought to have profoundly influenced his later novels and tales.

Anthony Trollope was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of his best-loved works, collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. He also wrote perceptive novels on political, social, and gender issues, and on other topical matters.
Noted fans have included Sir Alec Guinness (who never travelled without a Trollope novel), former British Prime Ministers Harold Macmillan and Sir John Major, economist John Kenneth Galbraith, English judge Lord Denning, American novelists Sue Grafton and Dominick Dunne and soap opera writer Harding Lemay. Trollope's literary reputation dipped somewhat during the last years of his life, but he regained the esteem of critics by the mid-twentieth century.
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Arlena Stuart, the famous actress, is enjoying—like our favorite Belgian detective Hercule Poirot—a summer holiday on Smugglers' Island, and will become a common enough sight, sunbathing on the hot sands. Then one azure morning her beautiful bronzed body is discovered in an isolated cove, in the shade. She is dead, strangled. And Poirot, as luckless as ever when he attempts some down-time, will learn in the course of his investigation that nearly all the guests of this exclusive resort have some connection to Arlena. But who had the capacity and the motive to kill her?