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Catherine: A Story

Author
William Makepeace Thackeray
Language
English
Length
186 pages
ISBN
9781802569414
Published
31 October 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • crime
  • morality
  • satire
  • 18th-century England
  • corruption
  • murder
  • vice
  • social critique
  • deception
  • downfall

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Thackeray retells the career of Catherine Hayes, burned for her husband's murder, as a sharp satire of crime tales that dress villains in romance. Rogues, deceit, and moral rot pressed hard enough that glamour falls away. A grim study of corruption and consequence.

Author

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) wrote Vanity Fair and a satirical England of snobs, soldiers, and Becky Sharp. Born in Calcutta, ruined young, he learned the world as a magazine man and then painted it at novel length. The narrator winks; the damage is real. Thirty-one titles here — more Fair than the one book everyone names. He drew as well as he wrote, and he never quite forgave society for being as silly as it is.

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