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The History of Pendennis

by William Makepeace Thackeray

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Chapter I — Shows How First Love May Interrupt Breakfast
  3. 3Chapter II — A Pedigree and Other Family Matters
  4. 4Chapter III — In Which Pendennis Appears as a Very Young Man Indeed
  5. 5Chapter IV — Mrs. Haller
  6. 6Chapter V — Mrs. Haller at Home
  7. 7Chapter VI — Contains Both Love and War
  8. 8Chapter VII — In Which the Major Makes His Appearance
  9. 9Chapter VIII
  10. 10Chapter IX — In Which the Major Opens the Campaign
  11. 11Chapter X — Facing the Enemy
  12. 12Chapter XI — Negotiation
  13. 13Chapter XII — In Which a Shooting Match Is Proposed
  14. 14Chapter XIII — A Crisis
  15. 15Chapter XIV — In Which Miss Fotheringay Makes a New Engagement
  16. 16Chapter XV — The Happy Village
  17. 17Chapter XVI — More Storms in the Puddle
  18. 18Chapter XVII — Which Concludes the First Part of This History
  19. 19Chapter XVIII — Alma Mater
  20. 20Chapter XIX — Pendennis of Boniface
  21. 21Chapter XX — Rake’s Progress
  22. 22Chapter XXI — Flight After Defeat
  23. 23Chapter XXII — Prodigal’s Return
  24. 24Chapter XXIII — New Faces
  25. 25Chapter XXIV — A Little Innocent
  26. 26Chapter XXV — Contains Both Love and Jealousy
  27. 27Chapter XXVI — A House Full of Visitors
  28. 28Chapter XXVII — Contains Some Ball-practising
  29. 29Chapter XXVIII — Which Is Both Quarrelsome and Sentimental
  30. 30Chapter XXIX — Babylon
  31. 31Chapter XXX — The Knights of the Temple
  32. 32Chapter XXXI — Old and New Acquaintances
  33. 33Chapter XXXII — In Which the Printer’s Devil Comes to the Door
  34. 34Chapter XXXIII — Which Is Passed in the Neighbourhood of Ludgate Hill
  35. 35Chapter XXXIV — In Which the History Still Hovers About Fleet Street
  36. 36Chapter XXXV — Dinner in the Row
  37. 37Chapter XXXVI — The Pall Mall Gazette
  38. 38Chapter XXXVII — Where Pen Appears in Town and Country
  39. 39Chapter XXXVIII — In Which the Sylph Reappears
  40. 40Chapter XXXIX — In Which Colonel Altamont Appears and Disappears
  41. 41Chapter XL — Relates to Mr. Harry Foker’s Affairs
  42. 42Chapter XLI — Carries the Reader Both to Richmond and Greenwich
  43. 43Chapter XLII — Contains a Novel Incident
  44. 44Chapter XLIII — Alsatia
  45. 45Chapter XLIV — In Which the Colonel Narrates Some of His Adventures
  46. 46Chapter XLV — A Chapter of Conversations
  47. 47Chapter XLVI — Miss Amory’s Partners
  48. 48Chapter XLVII — Monseigneur S’amuse
  49. 49Chapter XLVIII — A Visit of Politeness
  50. 50Chapter XLIX — In Shepherd’s Inn
  51. 51Chapter L — In or Near the Temple Garden
  52. 52Chapter LI — The Happy Village Again
  53. 53Chapter LII — Which Had Very Nearly Been the Last of the Story
  54. 54Chapter LIII — A Critical Chapter
  55. 55Chapter LIV — Convalescence
  56. 56Chapter LV — Fanny’s Occupation’s Gone
  57. 57Chapter LVI — In Which Fanny Engages a New Medical Man
  58. 58Chapter LVII — Foreign Ground
  59. 59Chapter LVIII — “Fairoaks to Let”
  60. 60Chapter LIX — Old Friends
  61. 61Chapter LX — Explanations
  62. 62Chapter LXI — Conversations
  63. 63Chapter LXII — The Way of the World
  64. 64Chapter LXI
  65. 65Chapter LXIV — Phyllis and Corydon
  66. 66Chapter LXV — Temptation
  67. 67Chapter LXVI — In Which Pen Begins His Canvass
  68. 68Chapter LXVII — In Which Pen Begins to Doubt About His Election
  69. 69Chapter LXVIII — In Which the Major Is Bidden to Stand and Deliver
  70. 70Chapter LXIX — In Which the Major Neither Yields His Money nor His…
  71. 71Chapter LXX — In Which Pendennis Counts His Eggs
  72. 72Chapter LXXI — Fiat Justitia
  73. 73Chapter LXXII — In Which the Decks Begin to Clear
  74. 74Chapter LXXIII — Mr. and Mrs. Sam Huxter
  75. 75Chapter LXXIV — Shows How Arthur Had Better Have Taken a Return-ticket
  76. 76Chapter LXXV — A Chapter of Match-making
  77. 77Chapter LXXVI — Exeunt Omnes

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