Author: William Makepeace Thackeray

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Published: 2015-07-10

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9781331106531

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Excerpt from Sultan Stork, and Other Stories and Sketches That so exquisite and finished a product of Thackeray's mature genius and humour as Sultan Stork should have escaped the author's attention when republishing his Miscellanies thirty years ago is perhaps more easily intelligible than its omission from the two supplementary volumes, containing pieces hitherto uncollected, issued in the winter of last year by the publishers of his collected Works, and which must be taken to represent and include their final gleanings in that field. In neither case is the omission of the radiant and sunny little jeu d'esprit which gives its leading title to the present volume easily explicable, except on the assumption of forgetfulness of its existence on the one hand on the part of the writer, or of ignorance of its existence on the other on the part of his posthumous publishers - a supposition rendered all the more likely in the latter case by the fact that "Sultan Stork" does not happen to be recorded in the original edition of the "Bibliography of Thackeray." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Sultan Stork, and Other Stories and Sketches (Classic Reprint) written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sultan Stork, and Other Stories and Sketches That so exquisite and finished a product of Thackeray's mature genius and humour as Sultan Stork should have escaped the author's attention when republishing his Miscellanies thirty years ago is perhaps more easily intelligible than its omission from the two supplementary volumes, containing pieces hitherto uncollected, issued in the winter of last year by the publishers of his collected Works, and which must be taken to represent and include their final gleanings in that field. In neither case is the omission of the radiant and sunny little jeu d'esprit which gives its leading title to the present volume easily explicable, except on the assumption of forgetfulness of its existence on the one hand on the part of the writer, or of ignorance of its existence on the other on the part of his posthumous publishers - a supposition rendered all the more likely in the latter case by the fact that "Sultan Stork" does not happen to be recorded in the original edition of the "Bibliography of Thackeray." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.