William Makepeace Thackeray (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from William Makepeace ThackerayWe were first cousins, had been little playmates and friends from the time of our birth, and the first house in London to which I was taken was that of our aunt. The little playmate was his cousin, Richmond Shakespear, whose death, deplored in a Roundabout Paper, took place two years before his own. In those days a visit to the enchained Emperor was a proper incident of travel, and a vision of the Corsican ogre was one of Thackeray's earliest and most vivid impressions. Our ship touched at an island on the way home, he wrote, where my black servant took me a long walk over rocks and hills until we reached a garden, where we saw a man walking. 'that's he, ' said the black man: 'that is Bonaparte! He eats three sheep every day, and all the little children he can lay hands upon.'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.