How Long to Read Catherine; a Shabby Genteel Story; the Second Funeral of Napoleon; and Miscellanies, 1840-1

How Long Does it Take to Read Catherine; a Shabby Genteel Story; the Second Funeral of Napoleon; and Miscellanies, 1840-1?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 34 minutes to read Catherine; a Shabby Genteel Story; the Second Funeral of Napoleon; and Miscellanies, 1840-1 by William Makepeace Thackeray

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William Makepeace Thackeray ( 18 July 1811 - 24 December 1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century. He is famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society. Thackeray, an only child, was born in Calcutta, British India, where his father, Richmond Thackeray (1 September 1781 - 13 September 1815), was secretary to the Board of Revenue in the British East India Company. His mother, Anne Becher (1792-1864), was the second daughter of Harriet Becher and John Harman Becher, who was also a secretary (writer) for the East India Company.Richmond died in 1815, which caused Anne to send her son to England in 1816, while she remained in British India. The ship on which he travelled made a short stopover at St. Helena, where the imprisoned Napoleon was pointed out to him. Once in England he was educated at schools in Southampton and Chiswick, and then at Charterhouse School, where he became a close friend of John Leech. Thackeray disliked Charterhouse, and parodied it in his fiction as "Slaughterhouse." Nevertheless, Thackeray was honoured in the Charterhouse Chapel with a monument after his death. Illness in his last year there, during which he reportedly grew to his full height of six foot three, postponed his matriculation at Trinity College, Cambridge, until February 1829.Never too keen on academic studies, Thackeray left Cambridge in 1830, but some of his earliest published writing appeared in two university periodicals, The Snob and The Gownsman. Thackeray then travelled for some time on the continent, visiting Paris and Weimar, where he met Goethe. He returned to England and began to study law at the Middle Temple, but soon gave that up. On reaching the age of 21 he came into his inheritance from his father, but he squandered much of it on gambling and on funding two unsuccessful newspapers, The National Standard and The Constitutional, for which he had hoped to write. He also lost a good part of his fortune in the collapse of two Indian banks. Forced to consider a profession to support himself, he turned first to art, which he studied in Paris, but did not pursue it, except in later years as the illustrator of some of his own novels and other writings.Thackeray's years of semi-idleness ended after he married, on 20 August 1836, Isabella Gethin Shawe (1816-1893), second daughter of Isabella Creagh Shawe and Matthew Shawe, a colonel who had died after distinguished service, primarily in India. The Thackerays had three children, all girls: Anne Isabella (1837-1919), Jane (who died at eight months old) and Harriet Marian (1840-1875), who married Sir Leslie Stephen, editor, biographer and philosopher. Thackeray now began "writing for his life," as he put it, turning to journalism in an effort to support his young family. He primarily worked for Fraser's Magazine, a sharp-witted and sharp-tongued conservative publication for which he produced art criticism, short fictional sketches, and two longer fictional works, Catherine and The Luck of Barry Lyndon. Between 1837 and 1840 he also reviewed books for The Times.[4] He was also a regular contributor to The Morning Chronicle and The Foreign Quarterly Review. Later, through his connection to the illustrator John Leech, he began writing for the newly created magazine Punch, in which he published The Snob Papers, later collected as The Book of Snobs. This work popularised the modern meaning of the word "snob."Thackeray was a regular contributor to Punch between 1843 and 1854. George Edward Bateman Saintsbury ( 23 October 1845 - 28 January 1933), was an English writer, literary historian, scholar, critic and wine connoisseur.

How long is Catherine; a Shabby Genteel Story; the Second Funeral of Napoleon; and Miscellanies, 1840-1?

Catherine; a Shabby Genteel Story; the Second Funeral of Napoleon; and Miscellanies, 1840-1 by William Makepeace Thackeray is 332 pages long, and a total of 83,664 words.

This makes it 112% the length of the average book. It also has 102% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Catherine; a Shabby Genteel Story; the Second Funeral of Napoleon; and Miscellanies, 1840-1 Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 37 minutes to read Catherine; a Shabby Genteel Story; the Second Funeral of Napoleon; and Miscellanies, 1840-1 aloud.

What Reading Level is Catherine; a Shabby Genteel Story; the Second Funeral of Napoleon; and Miscellanies, 1840-1?

Catherine; a Shabby Genteel Story; the Second Funeral of Napoleon; and Miscellanies, 1840-1 is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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