The History of Pendennis

William Makepeace Thackeray

⏱ 8 minVictorian classic

A clever, vain, generous young man, the idol of his widowed mother, drifts through calf-love, debt, and temptation in London toward a stumbling manhood, guided and nearly corrupted by his worldly uncle. Thackeray's genial semi-autobiographical novel.

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