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Catherine: A Story

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Though he originally set out to depict criminals in as harshly accurate a light as possible, without the sentimentalization that he saw and disdained in Dickens' work, Thackeray's fictionalized account of the life of Catherine Hayes, an eighteenth-century woman who was burned at the stake for the murder of her husband, depicts the titular character in a somewhat more appealing and charming manner than the author intended.

A must-read for fans of rollicking picaresque tales such as

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The Floating Press
1776515080 / 9781776515080
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
01/05/2009
English
287 pages
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