The Fatal Boots

Name: The Fatal Boots
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
ISBN: 9781802569179

Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Language: English
Length: 64 pages
ISBN: 9781802569179
Published: 8 October 2025
Imprint: Sovereign

vanity
satire
social pretension
comedy
humiliation
fashion
folly
manners
19th-century
absurdity

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Bob Stubbs buys flash top-boots on credit from Stiffelkind while posing as Lord Cornwallis, and the vanity sets off a calendar of misfortune: school exposure, a botched marriage bid, debt, and the courts. Comic social climbing with a hard sting. Thackeray on how a pair of boots can undo a pretender month by month.

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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