A set of 5 short stories for winter night reading. The author includes a set of his best work, including, Mrs. Perkins's Ball, Our Street, Dr. Birch and his Young Friends, The Kickleburys on the Rhine, and The Rose and the Ring

I know all now.  After sitting for a quarter of an hour with the Doctor, who attributed his guest's uneasiness no doubt to his desire to see Miss Rosa Birch, Davison started up and said he wanted to see Miss Raby.  "You remember, sir, how kind she was to my little brother, sir?" he said.  Whereupon the Doctor, with look of surprise, that anybody should want to see Miss Raby, said she was in the little school-room; whither the Captain went,  knowing the way from old times

 

A set of 5 short stories for winter night reading. The author includes a set of his best work, including, Mrs. Perkins's Ball, Our Street, Dr. Birch and his Young Friends, The Kickleburys on the Rhine, and The Rose and the Ring

MRS. PERKINS'S BALL. 3 THE MULLIGAN (OF BALLYMULLIGAN), AND HOW WE WENT TO MRS. PERKINS'S BALL. 3 MR. AND MRS. PERKINS, THEIR HOUSE, AND THEIR YOUNG PEOPLE. 5 EVERYBODY BEGINS TO COME, BUT ESPECIALLY MR. MINCHIN. 7 THE BALL-ROOM DOOR. 8 LADY BACON, THE MISS BACONS, MR. FLAM. 8 MR. LARKINS. 9 MISS BUNION. 10 MR. HICKS. 10 MISS MEGGOT. 11 MISS RANVILLE, REV. MR. TOOP, MISS MULLINS, MR. WINTER. 11 MISS JOY, MR. AND MRS. JOY, MR. BOTTER. 12 MR. RANVILLE RANVILLE AND JACK HUBBARD. 13 MRS. TROTTER, MISS TROTTER, MISS TOADY, LORD METHUSELAH. 13 MR. BEAUMORIS, MR. GRIG, MR. FLYNDERS. 14 CAVALIER SEUL. 15 M. CANAILLARD, CHEVALIER OF THE LEGION OF HONOR. 15 THE BOUDOIR. 16 GRAND POLKA. 16 THE SUPPER. 17 AFTER SUPPER. 18 THE MULLIGAN AND MR. PERKINS. 19 OUR STREET 20 OUR HOUSE IN OUR STREET 21 THE BUNGALOW--CAPTAIN AND MRS. BRAGG. 22 LEVANT HOUSE CHAMBERS. 24 SOME OF THE SERVANTS IN OUR STREET. 25 WHAT SOMETIMES HAPPENS IN OUR STREET. 28 SOMEBODY WHOM NOBODY KNOWS. 29 THE MAN IN POSSESSION. 30 THE LION OF THE STREET. 32 THE DOVE OF OUR STREET. 33 THE BUMPSHERS. 35 JOLLY NEWBOY, ESQ., M.P. 36 ALONZO. 38 THE DUCHESS. 38 DOCTOR BIRCH AND HIS YOUNG FRIENDS 40 THE DOCTOR AND HIS STAFF. 40 THE COCK OF THE SCHOOL. 41 THE DEAR BROTHERS. 43 THE LITTLE SCHOOL-ROOM. 43 A HOPELESS CASE. 44 A WORD ABOUT MISS BIRCH. 45 A TRAGEDY. 47 BRIGGS IN LUCK. 47 A YOUNG FELLOW WHO IS PRETTY SURE TO SUCCEED. 49 DUVAL THE PIRATE. 50 THE DORMITORIES. 50 A CAPTURE AND A RESCUE. 51 THE GARDEN, 52 THE OLD PUPIL. 53 EPILOGUE. 55 THE KICKLEBURYS ON THE RHINE. 57 PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION: BEING AN ESSAY ON THUNDER AND SMALL BEER. 57 THE KICKLEBURYS ON THE RHINE. 62 THE ROSE AND THE RING: 95 PRELUDE 95 THE ROSE AND THE RING 96 I. SHOWS HOW THE ROYAL FAMILY SAT DOWN TO BREAKFAST 96 II. HOW KING VALOROSO GOT THE CROWN, AND PRINCE GIGLIO WENT WITHOUT. 98 III. TELLS WHO THE FAIRY BLACKSTICK WAS, AND WHO WERE EVER SO MANY GRAND PERSONAGES BESIDES. 99 IV. HOW BLACKSTICK WAS NOT ASKED TO THE PRINCESS ANGELICA'S CHRISTENING. 101 V. HOW PRINCESS ANGELICA TOOK A LITTLE MAID. 102 VI. HOW PRINCE GIGLIO BEHAVED HIMSELF. 105 VII. HOW GIGLIO AND ANGELICA HAD A QUARREL. 108 VIII. HOW GRUFFANUFF PICKED THE FAIRY RING UP, AND PRINCE BULBO CAME TO COURT. 110 IX. HOW BETSINDA GOT THE WARMING PAN. 114 X. HOW KING VALOROSO WAS IN A DREADFUL PASSION. 117 XI. WHAT GRUFFANUFF DID TO GIGLIO AND BETSINDA. 119 XII. HOW BETSINDA FLED, AND WHAT BECAME OF HER. 124 XIII. HOW QUEEN ROSALBA CAME TO THE CASTLE OF THE BOLD COUNT HOGGINARMO. 126 XIV. WHAT BECAME OF GIGLIO. 128 XV. WE RETURN TO ROSALBA. 135 XVI. HOW HEDZOFF RODE BACK AGAIN TO KING GIGLIO. 139 XVII. HOW A TREMENDOUS BATTLE TOOK PLACE, AND WHO WON IT. 141 XVIII. HOW THEY ALL JOURNEYED BACK TO THE CAPITAL. 145 XIX. AND NOW WE COME TO THE LAST SCENE IN THE PANTOMIME. 148

Thackeray, William Makepeace , 1811-63, English novelist, b. Calcutta, India. He is important not only as a great novelist but also as a brilliant satirist. In 1830, Thackeray left Cambridge without a degree and later entered the Middle Temple to study law. In 1833 he became editor of a periodical, the National Standard, but the following year he settled in Paris to study art. There he met Isabella Shawe, whom he married in 1836. He returned to England in 1837, supporting himself and his wife by literary hack work and by illustrating. Three years later his wife became hopelessly insane; she was cared for by a family in Essex and survived her husband by 30 years. Thackeray sent his two young daughters to live with his parents in Paris, lived himself the life of a clubman in London, and worked assiduously to support his family. Throughout the 1830s and 40s, his novels appeared serially together with miscellaneous writings in several magazines. His Yellowplush Correspondence, in which a footman assumes the role of social and literary critic of the times, appeared (1837-38) in Fraser's. As a contributor to Punch he often parodied the false romantic sentiment pervading the fiction of his day. In 1848, Thackeray achieved widespread popularity with his humorous Book of Snobs and the same year rose to major rank among English novelists with Vanity Fair, a satirical panorama of upper-middle-class London life and manners at the beginning of the 19th cent. The novel contains many fascinating characters, particularly Becky Sharp, who, although clever and unscrupulous, is also extremely appealing. His reputation increased in 1850 with the completion of the partly autobiographical novel Pendennis. In 1851 he delivered a series of lectures, English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century, which he repeated in a tour of the United States in 1852-53. In 1852 his novel of 18th-century life, Henry Esmond, appeared. The Newcomes, in which some of the characters of Pendennis reappear, came out serially in 1853-55. In 1855-56 he delivered another series of lectures in the United States entitled The Four Georges (pub. 1860). His next novel, The Virginians (1857-59), is a continuation of the Esmond story. In 1860 Thackeray became editor of the newly founded Cornhill Magazine, in which his last novels appeared Lovel the Widower (1860), The Adventures of Philip (1861-62), and the unfinished historical romance, Denis Duval (1864). Thackeray's eldest daughter, Anne, Lady Ritchie, was also an author; his younger daughter Harriet married Sir Leslie Stephen.

 

The Christmas Books by William Makepeace Thackeray
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