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1、Catherine:AStoryCatherine:AStorybyWilliamMakepeaceThackeray1Catherine:AStoryContentsAdvertisement1.Introducingtothereaderthechiefpersonagesofthisnarrative.2.Inwhicharedepictedthepleasuresofasentimentalattachment.3.Inwhichanarcoticisadministered,andagreatdealofgenteelso
2、cietydepicted.4.InwhichMrs.Catherinebecomesanhonestwomanagain.5.ContainsMr.Brock'sautobiography,andothermatter.6.Theadventuresoftheambassador,Mr.MacShane.7.Whichembracesaperiodofsevenyears.8.EnumeratestheaccomplishmentsofMasterThomasBillings--introducesBrockasDoctorWoo
3、d--andannouncestheexecutionofEnsignMacShane.9.InterviewbetweenCountGalgensteinandMasterThomasBillings,whenheinformstheCountofhisparentage.10.ShowinghowGalgensteinandMrs.CatrecogniseeachotherinMaryleboneGardens--andhowtheCountdrivesherhomeinhiscarrige.11.Ofsomedomesticq
4、uarrels,andtheconsequencethereof.12.Treatsoflove,andpreparesfordeath.13.Beingapreparationfortheend.ChaptertheLast.AnotherLastChapter.2Catherine:AStoryADVERTISEMENTThestoryof"Catherine,"whichappearedinFraser'sMagazinein1839-40,waswrittenbyMr.Thackeray,underthenameofIkey
5、Solomons,Jun.,tocounteracttheinjuriousinfluenceofsomepopularfictionsofthatday,whichmadeheroesofhighwaymenandburglars,andcreatedafalsesympathyfortheviciousandcriminal.Withthispurpose,theauthorchoseforthesubjectofhisstoryawomannamedCatherineHayes,whowasburnedatTyburn,in1
6、726,forthedeliberatemurderofherhusband,underveryrevoltingcircumstances.Mr.Thackeray'saimobviouslywastodescribethecareerofthiswretchedwomanandherassociateswithsuchfidelitytotruthastoexhibitthedangerandfollyofinvestingsuchpersonswithheroicandromanticqualities.3Catherine:
7、AStoryCHAPTERI.Introducingtothereaderthechiefpersonagesofthisnarrative.Atthatfamousperiodofhistory,whentheseventeenthcentury(afteradealofquarrelling,king-killing,reforming,republicanising,restoring,re-restoring,play-writing,sermon-writing,Oliver-Cromwellising,Stuartisi
8、ng,andOrangising,tobesure)hadsunkintoitsgrave,givingplacetothelustyeighteenth;whenMr.IsaacNewtonwasatutorofTrinity,an
