The complete online text of The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 by William Makepeace Thackeray.

The British novelist William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) created unrivaled panoramas of English upper-middle-class life, crowded with memorable characters displaying realistic mixtures of virtue, vanity, and vice. When William Makepeace Thackeray beg...

Like many of his fellow Victorian novelists, William Makepeace Thackeray is noted for his ability to create memorable characters—such as Major Gahagan, Charles Yellowplush, Becky Sharp, Major Pendennis, Henry and Beatrix Esmond, Colonel Newcome, an...

Like many of his fellow Victorian novelists, William Makepeace Thackeray is noted for his ability to create memorable characters--like Major Gahagan, Charles Yellowplush, Becky Sharp, Major Pendennis, Henry and Beatrix Esmond, Colonel Newcome, and not le...

A HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN ASIA: VOLUME 2, 1500-1900. By Samuel Hugh Moffett. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 2005. Pp. xxvi + 740. $65. Sometimes something is worth the wait. This is supremely true of the much-anticipated second volume of Moffett's A History of Christianity...

Christian Community in History. Volume 2: Comparative Ecclesiology. By Roger Haight, SJ. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005. ix + 518 pp. $39.95 (cloth). The second volume of Haight's historical ecclesiology is based upon the same methodological commitments as the first, but...