Arthur Pendennis, an only son spoiled by his widowed mother, falls for an actress years older than himself before his worldly uncle the Major extracts him. He goes up to university, runs into debt, and makes his way in London journalism and society, torn between ambition and his mother’s ward, Laura.
Thackeray’s partly autobiographical portrait of a young man growing up, full of comedy and London literary life. Download the free EPUB.