Pendennis

"Pendennis" -- she answered slowly, and looking him full in the eyes, with

The History of Pendennis William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

Pendennis, which is, or is evidently meant to be in the first place, a portrait of the young man -- or with the story of Tom Jones perhaps, though in this case more doubtfully, for Fielding's shrewd eye was apt to be drawn away from the young man to the bustle of life around him.

The Craft of Fiction Percy Lubbock 1922

One snowy Sunday afternoon Tom lay on the sofa in his favorite attitude, reading "Pendennis" for the fourth time, and smoking like a chimney as he did so.

An Old-Fashioned Girl 1950

"Pendennis" and in "The Newcomes" he resolved to describe man as he was, with virtues and failings, with occasional glimpses of the noble, and more common exhibitions of the mean and the little.

A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

Colonel Newcome in the 'Cave of Harmony' gives in one poignant incident his character; the selection from 'Pendennis' does much the same.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton Patrick Braybrooke

The monks were not like the rising literary man, who, when asked if he had read "Pendennis" replied, "No -- I never read books -- I write them."

Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison

'Pendennis' is an epic because it celebrates not the strength of man but his weakness.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton Patrick Braybrooke

Am I not an _homme fait_ "(certainly our sixty-year-old Brazilian had never read" Pendennis ")," and better than any of these boys you admire?

Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Various

With the publication of 'Pendennis' the reputation of Thackeray reached that position which is sought by all authors, that of being able to write a book that should not, on publication, be put to the indignity of being asked who the writer was.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton Patrick Braybrooke

'Pendennis' that the shapes that intrude on the life of Arthur Pendennis have aggressive and allegorical influences.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton Patrick Braybrooke